American Folk Art

Christie’s has offered superb examples of American Folk Art since its first Americana auctions in 1979. The category has grown to include a wide range of works, including weathervanes, needlework samplers and paintings by well-known artists such as Edward Hicks, Ammi Phillips and Sheldon Peck, as well as anonymous practitioners. American Folk Art auctions take place every January in conjunction with our auctions of American Furniture.

Our specialists are unrivalled in both experience and expertise, and are always available for free and confidential valuations. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Explore our American Furniture and Decorative Arts department.

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We the People: America at 250
New York

We the People: America at 250 auction at Christies

23 Jan

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We the People: America at 250

New York

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From free valuations to market advice, our specialists are here to answer your questions.

Cara Zimmerman
Head of Americana and Outsider Art
+1 212 636 2230
CZimmerman@christies.com
New York
Cara Zimmerman is a Vice President, Head of Americana and Outsider Art. Since joining the company in 2014, Cara has developed and expanded Christie’s Outsider Art sales, creating stand-alone auctions for the category and achieving world auction records for important Outsider artists including William Edmondson, William Hawkins, Bill Traylor, and Carlo Zinelli, among many others. She has also been instrumental in highly successful Folk Art sales, which have achieved top prices for works by artists including Edward Hicks, Ammi Phillips, Wilhelm Schimmel, and Samuel Addison and Ruth Whittier Shute.

Before joining Christie’s, Cara worked for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and served as Executive Director for the Foundation for Self-Taught Artists in Philadelphia. She has edited and written for catalogues published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill, San Jose State University, and the University of Delaware University Museums. Cara received her AB from Harvard University and her MA from the University of Delaware. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Delaware.
Julia Jones
Associate Specialist
+212 974 4474
jjones@christies.com
New York
Since joining Christie’s in 2018, Julia Jones has been instrumental in the successful sale of works of important American furniture and paintings, Outsider art and Decorative arts. Julia has worked on landmark sales such as the Collection of Anne and Gordon Getty, La Rêverie: The Collection of Sydell Miller and the Collection of Henry Ford II. She oversaw the white glove sale of High Style in Highland Park: The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Edwin L. Cox. Julia graduated with B.A.’s in Art History and Anthropology from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and went on to receive her Master’s degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Annie Roddy
Sale Coordinator, Cataloguer
+1 212 636 2145
aroddy@christies.com
New York