COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1820-1837)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1820-1844 circa
Title:
San Jose Patriarca
Title:
Saint Joseph
Title:
Saint Joseph the Patriarch
Description:
Standing, bearded, crowned male figure holding baby on left arm. The figure is missing both lower arms.
Note Fr. Steele:
"I acquired this from L.A. Rice, the same "picker" who sold me RU19, but he had gotten it elsewhere. It makes a nice pair anyhow."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Joseph, Saint
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
"I did some cleaning of oil-paint overpainting and rebuilt gesso at shoulders, collar, Niño's head."
Exhibition note:
Trinidad, CO: A.R. Mitchell Museum, summer 2007|Pueblo, CO: Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, January - May 2016
Accession number:
RU0032
Measurements display:
24.4 x 9.7 x 8 cm
Santo Subject:
San José Patriarca (Saint Joseph)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Feast Day:
March 19
Patronage:
Patronage: of a happy death (since Christ traditionally was said to have been with him); of fathers and of families; of carpenters and all workers.
Note:
Spouse of Mary and foster father of Jesus, traditionally a carpenter. Shown in New Mexico as a younger man than in most European art, he has a dark beard and dark hair, carries a flowering staff, holds the Niño, and wears a brightly colored and often intricately patterned robe. He is sometimes crowned; occasionally there is a basket of carpenter's tools by his feet.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED