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San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.

Painted chest

San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

Painted chest

Artist:
General region:North and Central America
Date: early- 20th century
Medium: Painted wood
Dimensions:
h. 12 in. (30.5 cm); w. 29 in. (73.7 cm); d. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
Object number: 85.98.1321
Label Text
One of the best-known popular art traditions from Olinalá, Guerrero, is its production of lacquered objects, a genre that artists from the region have worked in for several hundred years. The orange base of these lacquered dowry chests specifies them as a works made in Olinalá. By the nineteenth century, chests such as these were made by an assembly line of artisans working on specific aspects of their production.

Una de las tradiciones artísticas más conocidas de Olinalá, Guerrero es la producción de objetos laqueados. Es una industria en la que los artistas de la región han trabajado por siglos. La base color naranja de estos baúles de dote los identifica como obras realizadas en Olinalá. En el siglo XIX, cofres como estos fueron hechos por una línea de ensamblaje de artesanos que trabajaban en aspectos específicos de su producción.

(LA, 2020)
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