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MAINLY-MEXICAN  > Arts and Crafts > Home Tour of a Mexican Folk Art Collection
The owners of this collection of Mexican Folk Art are members of Los Amigos, a national, non-profit collectors club open to anyone who loves collecting Mexican folk art.
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MAINLY-MEXICAN > Dining area of living room. Atop table made of old Mexican window shutter is a large reproduction talavera jar with serpentine handles made by Uriarte in Puebla, Mexico. See "Talavera Poblana" cover & pages 44-45 for original made in 1660. Original watercolor painting entitled "Las Ocho Tarascas" by Martha Allen of Bandera, Texas. Mexican folk art
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MAINLY-MEXICAN > Tooled leather and wood bar & bar stools made in Peru in 1970's. Small collection of pulque pitchers sit atop bar. Two original watercolor paintings of Mexican architecture by husband & wife, Edith & John Maskey of Comfort, Texas hang above the bar and were purchased from them at the annual art festival in Fredricksburg, TX in 1999. Mexican folk art
MAINLY-MEXICAN > Corner china cabinet made in Mexico. On top of cabinet are three vases made by Capello of Guanajuato and purchased at his home in 3/2000. See "Artesanias de Guanajuato" pages 22-27 for more information on Capello. The inside top shelf features work by Daphne Reynolds of Bierne, Texas. Work is high fired and reminisent of early tourist pottery from Mexico. Middle shelf features pieces made by Gorky Gonzales of Guanajuato and purchased from him at his home 3/2000. See "Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art" pages 62-65 and "Mexicolor" page 67-69. Bottom shelf features talavera from Uriarte in Puebla, Mexico purchased there from 1996-2001. Uriarte is one of the oldest, longest operating talavera factories in Mexico where everything is completely handmade and hand painted. Mexican folk art
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MAINLY-MEXICAN > Living room looking through arched doorway into front entrance hall. Much has changed but this is the old photo.
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MAINLY-MEXICAN > An overview of one side of the small living room - all Mexican
MAINLY-MEXICAN > The entry hall as viewed from the living room. Everything in view is hand made in Mexico except the mirror which was made by David Marsh in Texas.
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