Leo Salazar Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture Taos, New Mexico
Religious Man with Bird. Cedar wood, signed on bottom. Measures approximately: 20″ H x 6″ W x 5 D. From the book, “Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas” author Mary Caroline Montano writes: Leo G. Salazar apprenticed with Patrocino Barela and developed his own abstract style. His work is found in churches in Taos, Dixon, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque as well as the Smithsonian Institution, the Vatican, the Berlin Museum of International Folk Art and the Milicent Rogers Museum. There was no spacious studio with north light for this active artist. In winter he moved into a tin storage shed and fed chips and branches into an old wood stove. With his black beret pulled down over his thick graying hair and the company of his cassette player and collection of Spanish music, he’d work a twisted cedar trunk with a chisel.. Salazar started carving cedar wood santos at the age of 33, in 1965. He devoted most of his time, eight to 10 hours a day, to his art, but he had no formal schooling in sculpture. I learned by just watching the great master carver, Pat Barela of Taos. This item is in the category “Art\Art Sculptures”. The seller is “lightthinkart” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Republic of Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, China, Switzerland.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Artist: Leo Salazar
- Production Technique: Carving
- Style: Folk & Indigenous
- Material: Wood
- Time Period Produced: 1970-1989
- Format: Statue
- Type: Sculptures & Carvings
- Features: Signed, One of a Kind (OOAK)
- Subject: Religious
- Year of Production: 1981
- Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original