Jose Rafael Aragon
(1795 - 1862)
San Antonio Bulto, ca. 1820 - 1835
carved wood, gesso, pigments
17 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 in. (43.8 x 16.5 x 15.2 cm.)
The Paul Rhetts Collection, New Mexico

Exhibited:
"Our Saints Among Us: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art", from 1997-2002
Center for Southwest Research, New Mexico
DeSaisset Museum, California
Donnelly Arts Center, NMHU, New Mexico
Fuller Lodge Arts Center, New Mexico
Grace Museum, Texas
San Juan College Arts Center, New Mexico
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Colorado
Silver City Museum, New Mexico
UTEP Museum, Texas

Literature:
Barbe Awalt and Paul Rhetts: Our Saints Among Us: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art, LPD Press/Rio Grande Books, 1998

Base replaced with old retablo wood, hands possibly replaced, missing Niño.

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