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Lee Carter, designer
Nicho with Adam and Eve
1992
made in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
misprinted sheet metal for cans, solder, glass, chromolithograph
6 3/4" H X 2" D
International Folk Art Foundation Collection, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe
photograph by John Bigelow Taylor
© Museum of International Folk Art

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Some of Carter's copyright items combine sacred and profane images into visual puns. In one, an apple juice can frame surrounds an image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. As his assistant remarks about the visual play on words and images: "Either you get it or you don't."






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