tramp art

noun

|Updated on: 9 May 2018

Definition of tramp art

: a style of wood carving flourishing in the U.S. from about 1875 to 1930 that is characterized by ornate layered whittling often of cigar boxes or fruit crates; also : an object carved in this style

Recent Examples of tramp art from the Web

This space is featuring Harry Gould Harvey IV’s intricate and peculiar driftwood dioramas — tramp art à la Brancusi.

— will heinrich, New York Times, "12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens," 26 Apr. 2018
Summerland's Lillie Avenue flows past garden shops, continental antiques stores, and Just Folk, one of the West Coast's best galleries for American crafts and tramp art.

— david keeps, ELLE Decor, "ELLE DECOR Goes to Coastal California," 11 May 2011

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