Behind the Altar - Retablos from the collection of Paul LeBaron Thiebaud December 7, 2009

December 1 - 30, 10:00AM - 5:00PM

The Colonial Arts Gallery in San Francisco is proud to present the exhibition 'Retablo: Behind the Altar, A Collection of Paul LeBaron Thiebaud.' The exhibition features well over 100 Mexican retablos, ex-votos, colonial reliquaries and santos. James Eddy's gallery, Colonial Arts is an excellent venue to display this outstanding work, since it will be in the company of other fine collections of Spanish colonial art, Mexican folk art and retablos that also cover this genre.

The collection demonstrates the broad range of artistic styles, the multiplicity of subjects and saints and perhaps most of all, the evolution of retablo art, beginning with earlier colonial works on copper to the more spontaneous folk masterpieces on tin.

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