Tag: Dyes

  • God, Glory and Gold vs. God, Glory and … Dead Bugs

    God, Glory and Gold vs. God, Glory and … Dead Bugs

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    The cochineal is an insect slightly larger than a poppy seed. The bug’s carcass is the prime ingredient in creating a natural dye using carmine. Primarily a parasite, they are native to tropical and subtropical South America and up through North America and are collected from the pad of prickly pear cacti.

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Past Article

Donald T. Matter, Jr.
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Mary Jane Colter was not part of the conceptualization that Fred Harvey put on early 20th century travel to the American southwest, however her work was easily recognized and as early as the 1920s critics were writing, “Colter’s work is a vigorous modern statement, far ahead of the times.”

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