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Object Name: bulto
Maker: Luis Eligio Tapia
Title: Tribute to Maria Benitez
Date: 1990
Materials: Wood, carved and painted
Dimensions: 21 1/2 in x 11 in x 10 3/8 in (54.6 cm x 27.9 cm x 26.3 cm)
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object ID: 90.242.1

Institution: Autry Museum of the American West

Category: Art and Artifacts

Remarks

Bulto by Luis Tapia, Tribute to Maria Benitez, by Luis Tapia, 1990. Bultos (saints carved in the round) have been a prominent art form in northern New Mexico since the eighteenth century, when geographic isolation prompted the faithful to create devotional figures for personal use. Tapia’s portrait of the legendary flamenco dancer Maria Benitez represents a contemporary manifestation of this historic art form while evoking the graceful movement of the flamenco dance, also an important ritual in Hispanic society.

Subject

Art of the West (exhibition)

dancers

Hispanic

religious imagery

Publication