Mission Church Tower (from the The HGB Memorial Portfolios)
Artist
Helen Greene Blumenschein
(American, 1909 - 1989)
Date1950-1989 (printed October, November 1994)
Mediumlinocut
DimensionsImage: 3 × 2 in. (7.6 × 5.1 cm)
Support: 10 1/4 × 8 1/16 in. (26 × 20.5 cm)
Support: 10 1/4 × 8 1/16 in. (26 × 20.5 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1994
Object number1994.77.21
DescriptionThe ruins of a chruch domninate the central area of the image. Only the posts of the bell tower remain on the top of a very angular bodied church. A cross stands at the lower left and an abobe wall dominates the foreground.eMuseum Notes
This mission church was destroyed by the American forces under Colonel Price when the leaders of the revolt sought sanctuary in it during the revolt of 1847. It is still there today.
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