He said they had names such as "Paki" and "tramp" shouted at them in the street.
"Tramp art has a quirky and eccentric quality to it, a strangeness of form, " says Gerard C.
The myth that tramps created tramp art still draws many collectors, Wertkin says.
Mr Stink - about a smelly tramp - goes up against five other books in the seven to 14 category.
Last June, the U.S. turned back the Kang Nam, a North Korean tramp freighter believed to be carrying nuclear materials to Burma.
Adolph Vandertie, now 86 years old, is a tramp artist and collector.
It is a difficult tramp, even for someone who knows about tramping.
The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
Unlike the Little Tramp's teetering cliffside cabin, accommodations at the Larkspur Hotel are modern, comfortable and right in the middle of town.
We tramp through a landscape of shrunken brown plants, dried husks crunching under our feet as Marion searches for some small sign of fruitful growth.
He lived as "a tramp" on the streets of Bournemouth for three years until last year when he was beaten unconscious and left for dead.
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Today those objects are known as "tramp art, " mostly whimsical constructions.
Wertkin, director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, who is planning a 1999 sequel to his museum's 1975 tramp art exhibit.
Labour tweeters urged party members to be respectful - but the Respect MP George Galloway was in no mood for restraint, tweeting "Tramp the dirt down".
Today, they echo to the tramp of modern invading hordes, three million tourists a year, armed with cameras and guidebooks rather than pikes and broad swords.
And he would not repeal a law letting shooters tramp over private property of less than 20 hectares (100 hectares in the mountains), whatever landowners' wishes.
As you tramp down the road there is always regret, always the thought that perhaps if you held on for a little longer things might go right.
It is hard for those who regularly lust after alpine scenery to contemplate, but the last two days - flat trekking through forest - are probably the tramp's highlight.
Hikers travel from the shores of Lake Te Anau to the shores of Lake Manapouri via a full-day tramp along an exposed ridge, looking down on the park's namesake fiords.
Museum curators have started adding select pieces of tramp art to their folk art collections, such as a pin cushion, comb box and crucifix acquired in 1986 by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.
The pair have now worked on five books together, including Walliams' latest book Mr Stink, about a girl who befriends a local tramp and hides him in her garden shed to stop him being driven out of town.
But to get to the root of the thing, Hasselbeck made a despicable move that many women have made in the girl-on-girl war crime: saying that because she looked like a tramp, she deserved to be treated like a tramp.
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