This tin picture frame is made in the tradititional Spanish Colonial style.
Dimensions:
3" W x 3-1/4" H with a 2" diameter picture opening
Tinwork, like so many of New Mexico's folk arts, is the product of geographic isolation, creativity and simple ingenuity. What is now New Mexico was colonized by the Spanish in 1598, and many Spanish Colonial art forms thrive here today. Spanish Colonial tinwork originated in the 1800s when the US Army started bringing food supplies in large tins, before that metal was scarce and many Spanish silversmiths’ skills lay dormant because of the lack of raw materials. The tins coming across the Old Santa Fe Trail provided the silversmiths with materials to make decorative and functional tin objects that approximated the silver work made in Spain. Today, tinsmithing is a thriving and well preserved art form practiced by descendents of the original Spanish colonists.
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