Artist:
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Ramón José López
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Title:
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Un Sueño de Santa Fe, Agosto 1680 (A Dream of Holy Faith, August 1680)
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Date:
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2013
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Medium:
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Pigments on buffalo hide
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Dimensions:
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103 5/16 Ã 174 in. (262.38 Ã 441.96 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of George Shea, Patrick Payne, Wayne Boeck, and Gordon Locksley
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Location:
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Gallery 258
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Ramón José López is a contemporary painter, metal worker, and furniture designer who infuses his work with political messages. This gigantic buffalo hide painting shows the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, an uprising of several Pueblo communities against Spanish colonizers in present-day New Mexico. The Pueblo killed over 400 Spanish colonists and missionaries and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province; dozens of Native Americans also died.
Twelve years later the Spanish returned and were able to reoccupy New Mexico. Many people consider the revolt and its impact on Spanish rule to be a key factor in Puebloan maintenance of language, culture, and religion to this day.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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López, Ramón José
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Life Dates:
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American, born 1950
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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large scene of Pueblo Revolt by Spanish Colonizers; shows the battle between the two forces with a stream of buffalo along the bottom, and white buffalo at bottom center; large wooden frame with three carved fans hinged at top (removable)
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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2013.82.1
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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