Las Santeras | Harwood Museum of Art

Harwood Museum of Art presents

Las Santeras: Images of Faith and Folklore

Co-Curated by Gustavo Victor Goler

Exhibition overview presented by co-curators Gustavo Victor Goler and Nicole Dial-Kay.

Marie Romero Cash
Sunday Cruisers, 2007
Jelutong, gesso, watercolor, string, vintage car tires, sterling silver
entire piece: 11 × 24 × 11 in. (27.9 × 61 × 27.9 cm)
Courtesy of Curt, Christina and Jonah

Benita Reino López
Corona de Pajaros con Oso, 1960
carved aspen and pine
entire piece: 12 × 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 30.5 × 22.9 cm)
Courtesy of Ron and Diane Martinez

Lorrie Garcia
Patrona de la Santa Fe, 2004
entire piece: 38 × 18 × 9 1/2 in. (96.5 × 45.7 × 24.1 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Orlinda Sherwood López
Three Flowers, c. 2005
aspen wood carving
entire piece: 12 1/2 × 13 × 8 in. (31.8 × 33 × 20.3 cm)
Courtesy of Floyd Lucero and Maria Padilla

Anita Romero Jones
Untitled, c. 1995
paint on tin and wood
entire piece: 30 × 25 × 4 in. (76.2 × 63.5 × 10.2 cm)
Private Collection

Gloria López Cordova
Nuestra Señora de la Luz, 1995
Carved aspen and cedar
entire piece: 17 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 7 in. (44.5 × 24.1 × 17.8 cm)
Courtesy of Ron and Diane Martinez

Catherine Robles Shaw
La Familia de los Santos, 2005
wood, gesso, natural pigments, pinón sap varnish
entire piece: 50 × 2 in. (127 × 5.1 cm)
Courtesy Millicent Rogers Museum

Rhonda Crespin
Persingula, 2018
Hand-carved aspen and pine, gypsum gesso, natural pigment, watercolor paint, piñon varnish with beeswax. entire piece: 18 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (47 × 24.1 × 13.3 cm).
Courtesy of Christopher Jones

Sabinita Lopez Ortiz
Adam and Eve. 2018
Aspen and cedar
11 × 17 × 7 in.
Courtesy of the Artist

Lydia Garcia
Come Lord Jesus, 2000
entire piece: 28 × 33 × 1 in. (71.1 × 83.8 × 2.5 cm)
Private Collection

Krissa Marìa Lòpez
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, 2006
pine, home-made gesso, natural pigments, wheat straw, leather, beeswax.
Private Collection

Tomasita Rodriquez
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Tin Frame, 1992
Cottonwood or basswood, gesso, oil paint, tin.
entire piece: 5 × 6 × 1 in. (12.7 × 15.2 × 2.5 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Guadalupita Ortiz
Virgen Maria y Jesus, 2015
wood, gesso and acylics
entire piece: 29 1/2 × 19 × 5/8 in. (74.9 × 48.3 × 1.6 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Jean Anaya Moya
San Isidro en toda su Gloria, 2017
Basswood, homemade gesso, natural mineral pigments, cochineal bug, piñon sap, varnish wax
entire piece: 15 × 15 1/2 × 2 in. (38.1 × 39.4 × 5.1 cm)
Courtesy of Steve & Jean Anaya Moya

Monica Sosaya Halford
Hope Chest, 2012
wood, gesso, watercolor
entire piece: 14 × 30 × 17 in. (35.6 × 76.2 × 43.2 cm)
Coutesy of Maria Goler Baca

Tomasita Rodriquez
Santiago de Compostella, 1994
Cottonwood or basswood, gesso, oil paint, cactus needle.
entire piece: 7 1/4 × 4 1/4 × 1 in. (18.4 × 10.8 × 2.5 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Bernadette Pino
Mary Magdalena, 2016
wood, Jeluton, gesso, watercolor paint
entire piece: 15 × 6 × 5 in. (38.1 × 15.2 × 12.7 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Tomasita Rodriquez
Harmony in the Garden of Eden, 1997
Cottonwood or basswood, gesso, oil paint, egg tempera.
entire piece: 13 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 1 in. (34.3 × 26 × 2.5 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Rosina López de Short
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, 2011
entire piece: 14 × 7 × 1 1/2 in. (35.6 × 17.8 × 3.8 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

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