The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950’s BonAmi “Push Button” Cleaner and A Smatering of What It’s Cleaning Up

This vintage cleaning product can may be a little worse for wear but so am I as I hobble around my house shining it back up to its usual sta...

May 24, 2010 by Allee Willis

A Coke is a Coke is a Coke

Combine the world’s most iconic flower and the world’s most iconic soft drink and you have the above, a Coke rose. The rose is m...

by Douglas Wood

For The Love of Lowe’s

I spotted this painting of a Lonely Lowe’s at a county fair a few years ago. I like how there are no cars in the lot, and how the tree...

May 23, 2010 by Nessa

There are Dishes in Heaven

This cute cutting board has been hanging in my grandmother’s kitchen as long as I can remember. I think it must be pretty old. I never...

May 22, 2010 by Nessa

Beany Barnyard Craft

I made this rooster as a craft during Brownie Scouts back in the 60s – also made a hen to complete the set but unfortunately she later...

May 21, 2010 by sharon50s

Poodle People On Velvet

I especially love Poodle Boy’s Liza Minelli dayGlo green hair, his little paw hands and the way his angora-on-speed sweater reflects o...

May 17, 2010 by Allee Willis

Mosaic Clown

Like the vaunted Poodle, the Clown is another species who attains almost instant Kitsch status just by existing. Especially if they’re...

by Allee Willis

Anatomically Correct Devil Couple

I know so little about cars, I could be way off-base, but I think the bulk of these metal devil characters is made from some sort of car par...

May 15, 2010 by Douglas Wood

Bargain Hunter Warning in Verse

Whoa– what a mean-spirited little retail rhyme this is! Apparently this verse and illustration are intended to curtail over-eager shop...

May 14, 2010 by Douglas Wood

Allee Willis Presents “Hey Jerrie” – 91 yr. old female drummer on an oxygen tank

If you haven’t seen this please watch now. I did this last year with Jerrie. At one point it was the 12th most watched video in the wo...

May 13, 2010 by Allee Willis

Henry Rox Prints from 1965 “Crying Onion” & “Bathing Fruit” 8×10’s

These were $1.00 each. Nabbed them at a church thrift shop. I never heard of this artist before and didn’t bother to research info on ...

May 12, 2010 by denny

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Resin Watermelon

Cut to precision, this slick and shiny melon wedge is made of crushed glass imprisoned in perfectly buffed resin and rests on a light wood r...

May 11, 2010 by Allee Willis

Fat Superman Velvet Painting

Made in Tijuana in 1998, this velvet portrait suffers from an over prescription of Kitsch which causes the Carrott Top pumped-to-within-an-i...

by Allee Willis

Kings of Kings, The Jesus & Elvis Show

Almost anything painted on velvet attains instant Kitsch status but when it’s the two most iconic figures of all time together on the ...

by Allee Willis

Mexican Elvis On Velvet

Looking like he was baked by a south of the border blazing sun, this almost African American Elvis on velvet also has a semi-Oriental thing ...

by Allee Willis

the ladies inside me and my friends

this started out as bi polar, then tri polar, then bi polar x2..but it seem perfect this is the final and one i call perfect. but its no lon...

by monica johnson

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Vintage Spirograph Set

This is the real deal, vintage 1967 original Spirograph by Kenner No. 401. Although the resulting art was too precise and anal looking for m...

May 7, 2010 by Allee Willis

1960’s Artist Beard and Mustache Disguise

I can’t imagine that many people working at Bayshore Industries, the company responsible for this follilicular fun for the face, knew ...

by Allee Willis

And she only costs $175…

The center of attention at a tag sale this weekend sat a life size sculpture of Ulla. That’s what they named her. I was told, when she...

May 5, 2010 by MyFunCloset

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Ultimate Green Garden

If ever there were a garden for 2010 with no water required, no gardening bills to pay and always picture perfect plumage on well-sculpted a...

by Allee Willis

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Purple Plaster Finger Sculpture

This is in a display case in a building on the campus I am currently attending....

May 3, 2010 by denny

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70s triptych

This triptych came from my grandmother’s apartment in Florida. It’s about 7′ square, with wood panels, and it’s heav...

April 27, 2010 by MeshuggaMel