Sculpture, Virgin of Guadalupe

NameSculpture

CultureMexican

Dateca. 1970

Place madeMexico City, Mexico, North America

MediumBone, acrylic paint, wood

DimensionsLargest: 12 13/16 × 6 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (32.5 × 15.6 × 8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Jorden Nye, A.2019.7.1

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Object numberA.2019.7.1

ProvenanceExcerpted from a donor email: Purchased by donor in 2000 in Mexico City at the Palacio de las Mascaras gallery. This store had 15-20 rooms of vintage Mexican masks hanging on the wall, floor to ceiling. After purchasing some masks, the owner Eugenio Sosa Rodriguez took me upstairs to his living quarters to show me this sculputre, presumably of a cow's leg bone. I recall that his father had carved it years before, and he was then willing to sell it; 11/9/2018

DescriptionHandcarved sculpture of the Virgin of Guadalupe depicting Mary wearing a tall crown with a cross in center, dark blue cloak with gold stars and with hands in prayer above an angel with outstretched arms and radiating rays of light/fire.