Record Details

Seated Tiger

Artist Felipe Benito Archuleta ((1910–1991))

Date1970

Place/RegionTesuque, New Mexico, United States

MediumPaint on cottonwood

Dimensions30 3/4 × 16 3/4 × 35"

Credit LineGift of Elizabeth F. Wecter, Animal Carnival, Inc.

Accession number1985.20.13

CopyrightCopyright for this work is under review.

Description

Felipe Archuleta has been making animals since 1964 when he prayed to God for guidance and received the inspiration to carve. Although these animals are secular in nature, they continue the tradition of woodcarving started in the sixteenth century with the arrival of the Spanish in New Mexico.

Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy C. Hollander, "Seated Tiger," Expressions of a New Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 1989), 122