COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Herrera, Nicholas (American santero, born 1964)
Creator note:
lifeOSAU, p. 138
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1994
Title:
Santo Tomás Apostol
Title:
Saint Thomas the Apostle
Description:
Haloed male figure wearing striped red and blue robes, holding a book in his left hand and a staff in his right.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Nick Herrera is a g-gr-nephew of Jose Ines Herrera of El Rito -- Robert Stroessner Santos of the Southwest 52-53, Shaklop Wooden Saints."
Inscription:
on front: San Thomas / Nicholas Herrera
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
pigment on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Thomas, Apostle, Saint, active 1st century
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
1994
Accession number:
RU0213
Measurements display:
35 x 23.2 cm
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED