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The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art
November 8, 1986 - March 1, 1987
In 1985, The Mexican Museum received a gift of over 500 Mexican Popular Art objects from The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art. This collection spans 45 years of Nelson Rockefeller's love affair with Mexico and its Popular Art. "The artistic quality of [this collection] is remarkable," stated Carlos Espejel, a leading Mexican scholar on arte popular in Mexico. "The collection constitutes a testimony to Mexican folk art of the last half-century."
The Mexican Museum's exhibition of the Rockefeller Collection featured ceramics, textiles, popular religious paintings, masks, lacquerware, sculpture and toys, displaying the range and exceptional artistic quality of the collection. Because many of these objects are no longer produced, the exhibition afforded the public the opportunity to view pieces that demonstrated important changes in aesthetics, media and technique during this century.
Click on any of the thumbnails to the left of this screen to browse through selected images from the Rockefeller collection.
Catalogue available in La Tienda.
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