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(Fray Angélico Chávez History Library)

Fray Angélico Chávez

Manuel Ezequiel Chávez
Wagon Mound, NM, 1910-Santa Fe 1996
American Franciscan priest, historian, author, poet, and painter
(Wikipedia)

Donna Quasthoff
1997

Description

Bronze statue of Chávez holding a book with a rose.

Signature

donna quasthoff 1997

Information Sign

FRAY ANGÉLICO CHÁVEZ
(1910·1996)
priest·poet·historian·archivist
artist·author·biographer·genealogist
and native-born new mexican
major u.a. army·w.w. ii & korean conflict
"the love I Love Is one, but one
The only Rose!" From The Single Rose 1948
this statue commissioned by judge harry long bigbee
a long-time friend of the chavez family

Sculptor

Donna Quasthoff (Chicago 1924), American sculptress at Santa Fe.

Locatie (N 35°41'17" - W 105°56'15") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: usnm16; Photograph: 13 October 2010
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