Religion in the Americas

This is a photograph of a wooden sculpture from Huexotla, Mexico. The sculpture depicts a man with a crown of thorns.
Paul Strand
Christ with Thorns, Huexotla
photogravure on paper
15 3/4 in x 12 3/8 in (40.01 cm x 31.43 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Davis through the Friends of the Museum of Art
Prentiss Taylor
Macedonia A.M.E.
lithograph on paper
9 9/16 in x 13 ⅜ in (24.29 cm x 33.97 cm)
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration, New Deal art project
This print shows a large group of people seated in a theater. On the stage, a man stands on top of a podium in the midst of a number of seated men who talk amongst themselves.
George Wesley Bellows
Billy Sunday
lithograph on paper
16 5/8 in x 9 5/8 in (42.23 cm x 24.45 cm)
Dr. Herbert & Doris Sloan
Crowded room with a lot of people, some on balcony and most below.
George Wesley Bellows
The Sawdust Trail
lithograph on paper
20 x 25 1/2 in. (50.8 x 64.77 cm)
Dr. Herbert & Doris Sloan
Y. Verne
Voodoo Ritual
inlaid banana leaves and cane on cardboard
23 1/2 in x 42 in (59.69 cm x 106.68 cm)
Gift of Dr. James L. Curtis
Columbian
Saint
oil on panel
8 ⅜ in x 5 ⅞ in x 7/16 in (21.27 cm x 14.92 cm x 1.11 cm)
Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Horace M. Miner
Mexican; Zapotec
Seated figure
ceramic
7 1/16 in x 4 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in (17.94 cm x 12.38 cm x 11.43 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Crossing at Chalma
gelatin silver print on paper
10 in x 7 15/16 in (25.4 cm x 20.1 cm)
Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin
This is a photograph of a clothed wooden sculpture of a woman taken in San Felipe, Oaxaca. 
Paul Strand
Virgin, San Felipe, Oaxaca
photogravure on paper
15 3/4 in x 12 3/8 in (40 cm x 31.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Davis through the Friends of the Museum of Art
Photograph of field with wild flowers. Church is visible in background. Dark, thick clouds loom overhead.<br /><br />
Eva Caston 2017
Elliott Erwitt
Church at Wounded Knee, from "Portfolio of 15 Photographs"
gelatin silver print on paper
16 in. x 19 15/16 in. ( 40.7 cm x 50.7 cm )
Gift of Gerald Lotenberg
Portrait of a nun wearing a habit, hands together in prayer and bright pink lips. The screenprint is black and pink with royal blue lines outlining the nun&#39;s figure.
Andy Warhol
Ingrid Bergman (The Nun)
screenprint on Lenox Museum board
38 x 38 in. (96.52 x 96.52 cm)
Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
A photograph of eight boys, all of which are the same person, voraciously eating a loaf of white bread off a rock in a forest.
Anthony Goicolea
Last Supper
dye destruction print on paper
40 in x 77 in (101.6 cm x 195.6 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

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Part of 3 Learning Collections

American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century
<p>America Encounters Asia in Art</p>

48 Collection Object Sources

Billy Sunday (2013/2.247)
The Sawdust Trail (2013/2.268)
Voodoo Ritual (2011/2.187)
Saint (1983/2.251)
Seated figure (1983/1.356)
Crossing at Chalma (1987/1.174.11)
Last Supper (2004/2.9)
Prayer - Right (2008/2.246.2)
Electrician, Cuba (2014/2.307)
Easter Dress (2013/2.158)
Untitled (2014/2.121)
What Is, Is (2008/2.242)
Untitled (1996/1.70)
Cristo, Oaxaca (1971/2.126.8)
Calvario, Patzcuaro (1971/2.126.12)
Untitled (1951/2.1)
Exodus (1950/2.8)
Untitled (1990/2.61)
New Hope (2010/1.205)

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