Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo (from the The HGB Memorial Portfolios)
Artist
Helen Greene Blumenschein
(American, 1909 - 1989)
Date1950-1989 (printed October, November 1994)
Mediumlinocut
DimensionsImage: 3 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (9.2 × 11.7 cm)
Support: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Support: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1994
Object number1994.77.7
DescriptionImage depicts a religious procession leaving a church on Christmas Eve. Villagers carry out the bulto of the patron saint of the church to a canopy. Firecrackers are bursting in the sky.eMuseum Notes
This image depicts a procession leaving Taos Pueblo church on Christmas Eve. Luminarias are being lighted along the way while firecrackers are bursting in the sky as used to be done long ago.
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