"La Bella Huri"

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"La Bella Huri"

1970

Consuelo González Amezcua (American (born Mexico), 1903–1975)

Amézcua lived most of her life in Del Rio, Texas, and referred to her work as “Texas filigree art.” Without formal training, she produced complex, elaborately patterned drawings from her imagination, primarily using ball-point pens. Exotic subjects and motifs such as kings and queens, muses, and birds—especially peacocks—combine with poems and texts in startling compositions as fully decorated as Indian or Persian miniature paintings. The word huri in the inscription on this sheet apparently does not exist in Spanish or Italian, but the subject may be intended to be one of the beautiful virgins, known as houri, that were provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.

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Object Details

Title:

"La Bella Huri"

Date:

1970

Artist:

Consuelo González Amezcua (American (born Mexico), 1903–1975)

Medium:

Colored ball-point pen inks, wax crayon, and graphite with touches of watercolor on tan cardboard

Dimensions:

Sheet: 23 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (60.6 x 34.9 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Gift of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, 2005

Accession Number:

2005-28-1

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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