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Gordon Frost Collection Exhibitions & Loans

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art
Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, San Diego
Southwest Museum, Los Angeles
The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Museum of American Folk Art, New York
San Antonio Museum of Art


Books Feature Gordon Frost Collection

Maya Culture & Costume by Christine Conte (The Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts, 1984). This book is the most comprehensive survey of Guatemalan textiles from the major United States and Canadian collections.

Guatemalan Mask Imagery by Gordon Frost (The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1976). This monograph accompanied an exhibition of masks from the Gordon Frost Folk Art Collection. It won the prestigious Printers Industries of America "PIA" award for graphic art design.

Little Known Textiles of Guatemala: An Arbitrary Selection by Gordon Frost (Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles 1976 Proceedings, Irene Emery and Patricia Fisk, Eds. (The Textile Museum, Washington D.C. 1976). Museum experts and textile collectors read papers and make comments on the theme, Ethnographic Textiles of the Western Hemisphere.

The Folk Art of Latin America: Visiones del pueblo by Marion Oettinger, Jr. Ph.D. Museum of American Folk Art. (Penguin Books, New York 1992). Wide ranging survey of the folk art of Central and South America. [photo of the jaguar mask]

Precolumbian Fauna and Flora by Jeanette Peterson, Ph.D. (The Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, San Diego, 1990). This profusely illustrated and clearly written book follows Mesoamerican art from Precolumbian times to the present.

These books may be purchased from the museums or from Gordon Frost.


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