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Tree of Life Candleabrum
Tree of Life Candleabrum
Tree of Life Candleabrum
DepartmentLatin America

Tree of Life Candleabrum

NameCandelabrum
Maker Herón Martínez Mendoza (Mexican, 1918 - 1990)
Datec. 1960
Place madeAcatlán de Osorio, Puebla, Mexico, North America
MediumCeramic, slip, paint
Dimensions42 1/2 × 25 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (108 × 65 × 8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.44.304
Object numberA.1979.44.304
DescriptionHand-built; slip coated, brightly painted; male seated on stump, arms form branches; archangel on each side; base, stump, branches painted.
Figure, cactus
Herón Martínez Mendoza
c. 1958
Adam and Eve with Tree of Life
George Lopez
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Tree of Life
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1990s
Storyteller
Helen Cordero
1964
Arbol de la Muerte (Tree of Death)
Artist unrecorded
ca. 2003
South America, Ecuador, Pomasqui
Artist unrecorded
c. 1950
Figure
Felipa Trujillo
c. 1960
Female Figure
Anita Lowden
c. 1960
Woman with Child
Helen Cordero
1958 - 1963
Pot
Laurencita Herrera
c. 1960