Uncredited Hispano Artist(s)
About 1930s
Tin
12” W x 17” H
As a decorative art, tinwork has been practiced in the area that is now New Mexico for over 300 years. Originally developed by 18th-century Spanish colonists, it is a mestizaje, or hybrid, art form. As seen here, the practice combines Spanish motifs of rosettes and scallops with Indigenous designs of parrots and rainbows to create a distinctly “New Mexican” cultural expression.
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Gallup’s New Deal art collection consists of over 120 objects created, purchased, or donated from 1933 to 1942 through New Deal federal art programs administered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support artists during the Great Depression.
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Gallup’s New Deal art collection includes works by a demographically, professionally, and stylistically diverse group of named and unnamed artists.
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