Looking at Tramp Art with Author Clifford Wallach
By Maribeth Keane
— My first book, "Tramp Art, One Notch at a Time", was self-published in 1998. At the time we started to do the book, it was just assumed that tramp art was made by tramps, but as we were examining the pieces, we started to see that it was more complicated than that. We started to find histories and biographies of some of the makers, and we started to move away from the idea of the tramp maker, this anonymous person walking through the countryside, making tramp art in exchange for food and...