Most, if not all, of the catalogues that were published to accompany the museum exhibits of the five artists who worked with Juan Negrín are out of print and no longer available. These exhibits span various European, US and Mexican venues. We have digitized all of these to make them available on this online archive in the language of publication. All of the catalogues are posted on the English and Spanish sides of this archive regardless of language to keep them together. We apologize to those of you who are not multi-lingual for the lack of an available translation.

Nierica: Arte contemporáneo huichol

Nierica: Contemporary Huichol Art

Juan Negrín
| July 1986

Catalogue published as part of the groundbreaking Wixarika yarn painting exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City (July-September 1986). This historic exhibit was the first time that contemporary Indigenous art was exhibited in said museum and was part of Juan Negrín's long term efforts to advocate for contemporary Wixarika artists like José Benítez Sánchez, Guadalupe González Ríos, Juan Ríos Martínez, and others.

The Wixarika Research Center is excited to share the digitized catalogue here.

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Arte y Magia de Los Huicholes por Juan Negrín 1979

Art and Magic of the Huichols

John and Colette Lily, Juan Negrín
| April 1979

This catalogue accompanied an exhibit on Wixarika art and culture titled "Art and Magic of the Huichols" organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1979. The catalogue includes black and white images by various authors and was coordinated by John and Colette Lily with Juan Negrín.

See full Spanish-language catalogue here.

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Le courrier de l´unesco

Les huichols au Mexique parlent la langue des dieux

Juan Negrín
| February 1979
par Juan Negrín "CEUX qui vinrent au Mexique en quete d´or et d´ames a sauver, pour engendrer en fait l´actuelle race métisse, laissérent de coté un certain nombre d´indigénes qui allérent se replier au plus profond de leurs vallées montagneuses. Au Sud de la Sierra Madre Occidentale, dans les Etants mexicains de Jalisco et de Nayarit, vivent aujourd´hui 6,000 á 7000 de ces marginaux: les Huichols, lls habitent des contrées au relief accidenté, avec des ravins pouvant atteidre 500 métres et des sommets plus de 2 000 métres, au point que l´on ne peut y accéder qu´a pied. "
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The Huichol Creation of the World by Juan Negrín

The Huichol Creation of the World

Juan Negrín
| December 1975

This catalogue accompanied an exhibit curated by Juan Negrín for the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, California (December 6, 1975 - January 18, 1976) and the San Jose Museum of Art (May 5 - June 6, 1976) and features the artworks of Tutukila Carrillo Sandoval and José Benítez Sánchez. As noted in the introduction, the exhibit also includes votive and traditional crafts, as well as textiles collected through friends in the Wixarika communities or shop owners in Tepic.

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Collections Huichol Musee de L'Homme

Catalogue of Wixarika material collection in France's Musée de L'Homme

Mireille Simoni Abbat
| January 1963

France’s Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) is a museum established at the height of France’s colonial empire that incorporated a broad study of the study of human and natural sciences, and a section on ethnography. It holds a collection that is perhaps unique - along with that of the Chicago Museum - of Wixarika cultural materials. The majority of these objects come from a collection brought to the Museum of Natural History at the end of the 19th Century by French ethnographer, Léon Diguet.

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