The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk ArtAmassed in over 50 years of global travel by the noted architect and designer Alexander Girard, the Girard Collection, at Santa Fe's Museum of International Folk Art, encompasses more than 100,000 works from 100 cultures worldwide. This book contains a selection of 300 objects from the collection. |
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