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1) My Penitente Land: Reflections of Spanish New Mexico

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Language

English

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This unusual book, Fray Angélico Chávez's personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. The spirit of New Mexico, he feels, grows out of its dry mountain terrain whose hills and valleys resemble those of Spain and of ancient Palestine. Just as this kind of landscape helped the Hebrew shepherd Abraham to find his God, so in Fray Angélico's view, have New Mexico's mountains...

2) New Mexico Triptych

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Language

English

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A gentle wood carver whose santos are stolen; an old hunchback who, with the help of Our Lady, comes into her own; a horse thief innocent of wrong intents-theirs are the stories that Fray Angélico paints, framing them with exquisite art in the manner of the medieval triptych. Born and bred in the land of sunshine and silence, Fray Angélico Chávez has a threefold heritage and a threefold gift. Heir to the artistic tradition of Spanish New Mexico,...

3) Origins of New Mexico families: a genealogy of the Spanish colonial period

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

441 pages ; 28 cm

Language

English

4) Chávez: a distinctive American clan of New Mexico

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Series

Southwest heritage

Language

English

5) La Conquistadora: the autobiography of an ancient statue

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Language

English

6) Our Lady of the Conquest

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Series

Southwest heritage

Language

English

7) My Penitente land: reflections on Spanish New Mexico

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

xiv, 272 pages ; 26 cm

Language

English

8) The Lady from Toledo

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

9) Guitars and adobes, and the uncollected stories of Fray Angélico Chávez

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

10) Wake for a fat vicar: Father Juan Felipe Ortiz, Archbishop Lamy, and the New Mexican Catholic Church in the middle of the nineteenth century

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

217 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Language

English

11) From an altar screen: El retablo: tales from New Mexico

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Language

English

12) Très macho--he said: Padre Gallegos of Albuquerque, New Mexico's first congressman

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

viii, 117 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

13) Selected poems: with an apologia

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm

Language

English

14) Coronado's friars

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Series

Monograph volume 8

Physical Desc

xx, 106 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm.

Language

English

15) Clothed with the sun

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

49 pages ; 21 cm

Language

English

16) New Mexico triptych: Being three panels and three accounts: 1. The angel's new wings; 2. The penitente thief; 3. Hunchback Madonna

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

76 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Language

English

17) Origins of New Mexico families in the Spanish colonial period: In 2 pts.: the seventeenth (1598-1693) and the eighteenth (1693-1821) centuries

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

xvii, 339 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical tables ; 28 cm

Language

English

18) Cantares: canticles and poems of youth, 1925-1932

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

xxxix, 134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

19) The short stories of Fray Angelico Chavez

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

139 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

20) The Virgin of Port Lligat: [poem]

Author

Chavez, Angelico

Physical Desc

73 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English