Oil on canvas (30" x 24"), 1986
Provenance: Acquired by current owner directly from the artist in 1986.

Sequins and beads on fabric (41" x 33"), 2000

Ex. collection of the late Marilyn Houlberg.

Vintage Huichol yarn painting by
Cresencio Perez Robles
Nayarit, Mexico, c. 1970's
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood
(24" x 24")

This 24 X 24 yarn painting is by master artist Cresencio Perez Robles. Perez's work was included in book Art of the Huichol Indians, which accompanied an exhibition of Huichol Indian Art, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition traveled from San Francisco in 1978 to Chicago and New York. It was this show and the accompanying catalogue that first introduced Huichol yarn painting to the general public.
Cresencio Perez Robles work was also featured in the exhibit Living Traditions Mexican Popular Arts in 1992 at the University Art Museum at Albany State University of New York and the accompanying book of the same title.
This picture was made in the 1970's of wool yarn pressed onto wax spread on a wooden board. Today yarn paintings are made of acrylic yarn. On the back the artist wrote the meaning of the piece in both Huichol and in Spanish and it is signed by the artist.

Bamana people, Mali, mid-20th century.
Wood with organic & mineral pigments.
(5 1/4" h. x 6 1/4" w. x 31" l.)

Ndabagera - Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1991
Oil on canvas (17 1/2" h x 35 1/2"w)

Aquatint (7 3/4 x 5 1/2)
#4/30, 1996
Framed

c.2012
Acrylic on paper
(10" h. x 14" w. )

Abraão Batista (Juareiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil)
Woodcut print on paper (13 x 21), #5/50, 1985

Carved wood sculpture, covered with beads set in beeswax.
12" long, x 4" wide x 1" high
Nayarit, Mexico, c.1997.