Ranchos de Taos side altar screen in shadow box

NameCarving

Maker Irene Martinez Yates (born 1940)

CultureHispana

Date1988

Place madeNew Mexico, United States, North America

Mediumwood, paint, gesso, glue, screws, glass, artifical flowers.

DimensionsOther (refedo): 18 5/16 x 12 x 3 1/8 in. (46.5 x 30.5 x 8 cm)
Other (shadow box): 22 1/16 x 16 15/16 x 3 15/16 in. (56 x 43 x 10 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Margot and Robert Linton, A.2006.67.28

Object numberA.2006.67.28

DescriptionSmall altar screen that is copy of the side altar at Ranchos de Taos church near Taos, NM. On top are three lunettes with a dove in the middle one. The screen had three levels of framed retablos. The top level has a male saint on one side, crossed arms in the middle and Christ carrying a cross on the right. The next level has a female saint on the left and a male saint in the middle and on the right. The lower level has a male saint on each side with a Cristo with Mary inset in the middle. There are columns on each side of the middle figures and also on each side of the altar. The altar sits on a cabinet decorated with red & blue swag designs. Red and blue swag designs are also around most figures. a pot of flowers sit on the cabinet and another is at the left of the cabinet. The reredo sits inside a shadow box painted white inside and stained brown outside. The backing in plywood.