DepartmentHispano

Masters in Colcha/Colcha Goes Contemporary

NameEmbroidery / Colcha

Artist or maker Monica Sosaya Halford (American, born 1931)

CultureHispano

Date2005

Place madeSanta Fe, New Mexico, United States, North America

MediumWool, cotton, canvas

DimensionsOverall: 30 5/16 x 24 in., 3/16 in. (77 x 61 cm, 0.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2005.51.1

Object numberFA.2005.51.1

Collections

Folk Art of New Mexico

DescriptionNine colcha images of classic paintings ( 3 across and 3 down) separated by black colcha sections and with black colcha edge. Artists represented are: Picasso, Sleeping Woman in Red Chair; Toulouse-Lautrec, Can-Can Dancer with Cello Player; Matisse, Sleeping Woman; Diego Rivera, Three Mexican Ladies; Dali, Lady in Blue; Gauguin, Three Ladies Bathing; Frida, Self-Portrait with Two Birds; Van Gogh, Yellow Chair with Pipe; Chagall, Animal Hugging Woman with a Flying Red Angel in Background. Signed and dated bottom right. Signed and titled on back.