Mar 8, 2018
Archives Road Trip: New Mexico
Marie Romero Cash (b.1942) comes from a long line of santeras/os, people who create sculptures in a Mexican-American Catholic tradition. As part of a major restoration project in the 1980s, the San Juan Nepomuceno Church in El Rito commissioned Cash to create a new retablo, a colorful painting on a massive wooden panel placed on the back of the altar.
This early rendering of the retablo is currently on view in our exhibition, Off the Beaten Track: A Road Trip through the Archives of American Art, on view through June 3 in our Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in Washington, D.C.