Antique Hooked American Rug 2677

Hooked Rug, America, Early 20th Century - At times the sensibilities of primitive folk culture may converge with the aesthetic of cutting edge modernist abstraction, as we see from this splendid antique American hooked rug. Irregular squares of rich and varied color arranged loosely as an approximate grid comprise the borderless field, foreshadowing the paintings of Mondrian and Rothko. This piece attunes us to the world of sophisticated expressiveness that often underlies folk art if we take the trouble to look closely.