Art of Devotion: Latin American Religious Art in the Collection
of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
The collection of Spanish/Mexican colonial artifacts donated to the museum
by Mr. Fred Pottinger represents some of the best pieces he collected. Mr.
Pottinger was an interior designer and dealer in fine antiques in San Antonio,
Texas for more than 40 years. He sold literally thousands of Mexican and South
American colonial antiques over this period, but kept many of the pieces donated
to the museum in his private collection.
During the summer months of 2006 a museum intern, Rebecca Gomez, worked on
this collection. She researched and catalogued the various objects and curated
this exhibit, which offers a sampling from the entire collection. Rebecca,
from Austin, Texas, is a senior at Southwestern University in Georgetown where
she is majoring in art history. "Being able to work with the objects
as well as read about the history", remarked Rebecca, "made this
a very interesting project."
Much of the work in this exhibit stems from the 19th Century, with some of
the objects dating to the 18th Century and earlier and a few pieces from the
20th Century. The types of art in the collection are retablos, santos, crucifixes,
and some items which are mainly decorative in nature such as wall brackets,
shelves, bell jars and candle stands.
San Angelo Museum
of Fine Arts
One Love Street
San Angelo, Texas 76903
Fax: (325) 658 - 6800
Phone: (325) 653 -
3333
e-mail:
museum@samfa.org