Saturday, February 10 - Sunday, May 13, 2018
Work by Women: Taoseñas
Gallery: Hispanic Traditions Gallery
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In the male-dominated genre of religious art, several women in the collection have breached that tradition: Frances Varos Graves with her colchas, an art form she helped revive in the 1940s; Anita Rodriguez with her altar to the healing process; and Maye Torres’s contemporary rendition of La Pietå.
Exhibition List
Unknown Artist (Santa Clara Pueblo), Olla, c. 1900
Dorothy Benrimo (1903-1977), Cross, c. 1950
Lydia Garcia (1936), My Lord and My God, 1999
Frances Varos Graves (1929-1999), Virgin on a Crescent Moon, c. 1940
Anita Romero-Jones (1930-2013), Altarpiece, 1992
Anita Rodriguez (1941), Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, 2013
Maye Torres (1960), La Pietá, 2005
