Artwork
Crane
Artist
Unknown
DepartmentLatin American Art
Dateca. 1930
Dimensionsheight: 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm)
width: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
depth: 17 in. (43.2 cm)
width: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
depth: 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
Object number85.98.664
GeographyPlace madeOlinalá, Guerrero, Mexico
General regionNorth and Central America
DescriptionA gourd with a long, curved neck painted white with black accents, meant to represent a crane or heron. Two pieces of carved wood have been attached to the body of the gourd and painted to look like the crane's legs.Label TextThis lacquered gourd crane is a notable example of the popular art traditions of the city of Olinalá, which is best known for its lacquerware. This piece has been included in some of the most important early exhibitions of Latin American popular art in the United States. These include the 1930 exhibition Mexican Arts, initially on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 1940.
Esta garza, formada de una calabaza laqueada, es un ejemplo notable de las tradiciones artísticas populares de la ciudad de Olinalá, conocida por sus objetos laqueados. Esta pieza formó parte de las primeras exposiciones de arte popular latinoamericano realizadas en los Estados Unidos, entre ellas la exposición de 1930 titulada “Mexican Arts,” que se estrenó en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nueva York, y la exposición “20 siglos de arte mexicano,” organizada por el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York en 1940.
(LA, 2020)Exhibition HistoryYale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947, September 11-November 21, 1993Con Cariño: Mexican Folk Art from the Collection of the San Antonio Museum Association (San Antonio Museum of Art), 1986.Published ReferencesJames Oles, "South of the Border: American Artists in Mexico, 1914-1947," in South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), fig, 89, p. 125.
On view
Collections
20th century
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