The Cross-Legged Angel Artists is the notname of an American fraktur artist. The name is derived from the repeated use of an Angel with crossed legs as a decorative element in their works. Other elements in the paintings include birds that sit upon the shoulder of the figures. This artist created a number of birth and baptismal certificates between 1790 to 1815 in northeastern Lancaster County and Berks County in Pennsylvania. Their handwriting on the documents was poor, but some were printed before being completed.
Work by the Cross-Legged Angel Artist may be found in the collections of the Reading Public Museum and Franklin and Marshall College.
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