18th century folk artist Andrea Garcia

  • 18th century folk artist Andrea Garcia
    18th century folk artist Andrea Garcia
  • The 13-inch-high antique wooden San Rafael figure with wings and holding a staff and a fish sold at a Cottone auction for $9,600.
    The 13-inch-high antique wooden San Rafael figure with wings and holding a staff and a fish sold at a Cottone auction for $9,600.
    Fra Andreas Garcia was an 18th-century Mexican Franciscan friar and folk artist who worked in what is now New Mexico. He carved and painted wooden figures of saints, called bulto, that were about 12 to 18 inches high. The figures were used as devotional images as well as artistic objects. A polychromed wood bulto made by Fra Garcia between 1748 and 1778 representing San (Saint) Rafael...

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