This is the first time that museum has found “folk art” in the wondrous, spontaneous images concocted happily for the moment. The most ephemeral of all effigies - the snowman - is there, and so is the hardiest- the pumpkin‐head or jug‐head harvest figure. The beguiling creations at the museum, a few salvaged from farms, but most of them recorded in photographs during their brief existences, are the picturesque makings of “The Ephemeral Image-Folk Figures in the Landscape.” With them are other figures that, with the changing seasons, inspired other artless artists. The tattered figures that from time immemorial ruled in corn and lettuce patch are not alone. Effigies that have scared the timid rabbit to scampering safety, the noisy crow to raucous flight and even the hardy woodchuck to wary reconnaissance are in a scare crow company, beginning to day, at the Museum of Amer ican Folk Art, 49 West 53d Street.
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