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Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesCapture the Flag Glenn Adamson Current and ComingVera Neumann at the Museum of Arts and Design, California studio craft at the SFO Museum, John Singer Sargent at the Morgan Library, and more On BooksA new book on the life and work of the …

From the archives: “New Mexican tinwork, 1840-1915”

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By Lane Coulter; from The Magazine ANTIQUES, October 1991 The art of the tinsmith flourished in New Mexico from about 1840 to 1915. During this period Hispanic tinsmiths primarily made devotional objects that reflected the Roman Catholicism of the Spanish Southwest, but they also made a limited number of more secular objects. They used shapes derived from architecture as well as immensely …