Imagination Click on the image for a larger view or here for the largest view .
Museum purchase with Manus Fund. This brilliantly patterned sculpture is characteristic of the alebrije genre, first created by family patriarch Pedro Linares in the 1950s. Clearly these figures are creatures of fantasy. GalleryCard submitted by Betsy D. Quick Director of Education, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California. This GalleryCard originally appeared in School Arts, October 1999.