COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Ortega, Benjamin Sr. (American santero, 1923-1998)
Creator note:
SCAS Master's Lifetime Achievement Award, 1995 (woodcarving)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1987
Title:
San Francisco de Asis
Title:
Saint Francis of Assisi
Note Fr. Steele:
"it's the sentimental romantic period St. Francis with birds and bunnies; O works with found shapes, though they're more evident in his larger pieces than in the pat small pieces like this one. It's stained, with a fabric cord. There is a signed certificate."
Location name:
Tesuque
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Santa Fe (county)
Materials display:
wood (plant material)
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Exhibition note:
Displayed Denver Public Library September-October 1988; Regis University Library September-October 1992
Acquisition note:
1987
Accession number:
RU0117
Measurements display:
22 x 18 x 9.5 cm
Santo Subject:
San Francisco de Asís (Saint Francis of Assisi)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1181- 1226
Feast Day:
October 4
Note:
The son of a merchant, founder of the Franciscans, dedicated to poverty and the passion of Christ, marked by the stigmata (the wounds of Christ in hands, feet, and side). His Order of Friars Minor had almost sole responsibility for New Mexico until the early nineteenth century.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED