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Photo, Print, Drawing At home and studio of Felix Lopez, La Mesilla, New Mexico

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Title

  • At home and studio of Felix Lopez, La Mesilla, New Mexico

Names

  • Kalb, Laurie Beth (Research team member)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • La Mesilla, New Mexico, June 22, 1984

Headings

  • -  Folklore--New Mexico
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Mexico -- La Mesilla

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Index data: Image numbers and descriptions: on Interstate highway 25 driving from Albuquerque, approaching Santa Fe: 1, highway scene; at the home and studio of artist Felix Lopez, La Mesilla NM: 2-4, 6-8, interior of Lopez's studio, an added room at back of house, photographs include the north wall, entry into the house proper; 5, Joseph Lopez (son), Felix Lopez (father), fieldworker Laurie Kalb; 9-20, Lopez's tools, generally in the order in which he employs them in sculpting; 9-10, tools for rough stages of work, saw, hatchets, files (rasps); 11-12, chisels and mallet, wood file; 13-14, more chisels, including some that Lopez used when he first began; 15-16, pocket knife; 17-18, tools for fine stages of work, files and carving tools; 19-20, tools for very fine stages, precision X-Acto type of knife, fine files.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/032: CF-C001

Source Collection

  • New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, and Carl Fleischhauer. At home and studio of Felix Lopez, La Mesilla, New Mexico. United States La Mesilla New Mexico, 1984. La Mesilla, New Mexico. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_cf_c001/.

APA citation style:

Kalb, L. B. & Fleischhauer, C. (1984) At home and studio of Felix Lopez, La Mesilla, New Mexico. United States La Mesilla New Mexico, 1984. La Mesilla, New Mexico. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_cf_c001/.

MLA citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, and Carl Fleischhauer. At home and studio of Felix Lopez, La Mesilla, New Mexico. La Mesilla, New Mexico. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_cf_c001/>.