Slotin Auction has scoured the country to bring the rare and unique items out for this sale. More than 1,100 lots will feature everything from Southern folk pottery, religious banners, trade signs, flash art, self-taught and outsider art, vernacular photography, African-American paintings and sculpture, Native American ledger drawings, important decoys, circus and carnival items, folk carvings, whirligigs, gorgeous memory paintings, weather vanes, cigar band creations, Navajo Folk art, contemporary Chicago art collection, tramp art, European folk art, art brut, erotica, collection of Southwestern ollas, illustration art, Odd Fellows, new discoveries and much more.

Watch for a museum-quality masterpiece by Adolf Wolfli, Lot 123, (est. $15,000-20,000); an Adam & Eve in the Garden wood carving by Edgar Tolson, Lot 134 (est. $8,000-12,000); Lot 131, and the iconic Soda Fountain carving from the Chuck and Jan Rosenak Collection featured as the front cover of Contemporary American Folk Art A Collector’s Guide and Contemporary American Folk Art The Balsley Collection (est. $3,000-5,000). Other treats include the rare, Winter Fun On Third Street, lot 129, by Ruth Perkins (est. $4,000-8,000); Lot 124, a singular Scottie Wilson work (est. 4,000-6,000); three soot and spit creations by outsider artist James Castle including two double-sided masterworks, Lots 125 & 126, provenance J. Crist Gallery (est. $4,000-8,000); and four drawings by Joseph Yoakum, including a large and rare vertical image, Lot 143, Mt. Parnasses In Pindas Mountain Range, Provenance Fleisher-Ollman Gallery (est. 8,000-12,000).

Decoy collectors will enjoy 60 lots of duck, geese and ice fishing decoys from the Linda and Gene Kangas Collection, including a rare back preening elder hen by Augustus “Gus” Aaron Wilson, c. 1900-20s, Lot 112 (est. $8,000-12,000) and lot 674 an early turned head pintail drake by Charles Perdew of Henry, Ill., (est. $1,000-1,500).

Other rare and important items include an Edouard Louis Dubufe (1820-1883) portrait of A Man With Daughter and Hunting Spoils from the Charles Alvey Estate, which was acquired from Bert Hemphill, Lot 110 (est. $2,000-4,000); a carved rooster by Wilhelm Schimmel (1817-1890, Pa.) Lot 111 (est. 4,000-6,000); and a grouping of original Native American ledger drawings from the early 1900s, Lots 105-108 (est. $2,000-3,000 each).

Other highlights are a fantastic mid-century oil by Paul Lauterbach, which exhibited at the Haggerty Museum of Art illustrated in the catalog pg. 55 (Lot 148 est. $1,000-3,000); an ex. Robert Bishop Collection work by Albert Webster Davies, Surrender At Nashville, Lot 149 (est. $2,000-3,000); lot 192, Seated Woman by Ralph Fasanella (est. 2,000-3,000), Lot 193; and a solarized photo of Marie by Eugene Von Brenchenhein (est. 1,000-3,000). Gorgeous works by memory painters, Tella Kitchen, Linda Anderson, Mattie Lou O’Kelley, Antonio Esteves and Nan Phelps will also be offered. There will also be stunning examples by Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Clementine Hunter, early numbered originals by Howard Finster, deeply carved strong examples by Herbert Singleton, masterpieces by Georges Liautaud, St. EOM, Bessie Harvey, Aldo Piacenza, Sulton Rogers, Archie Byron, Felipe Archuleta, Mose Tolliver and unique examples by North Georgia’s king of Southern folk pottery, Lanier Meaders.

As always, Slotin will feature several new discoveries of note: Lots 477-499, including a gun cut out of Rush Limbaugh’s The Ways Things Ought To Be, five works c. 1940 by New York artist John W. Johnson, including Lot 600, Nude by Mountain Lake; and Lot 398, The Modern Inferno: Ten Steps To Hell, a grouping of 11 erotic works by Jamestown, N.Y., artist Walter Reinsch, featured in Milton Simpson’s Folk Erotica.

Slotin Auction is always accepting quality consignments for future sales. To consign a single piece or an entire collection, call them, at 770-532-1115, or 404-403-4244. Or, e-mail them at auction@slotinfolkart.com.

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