Browse Items (58 total)

“Retablo” or “Santa” of Our Lady of Loreto made by Clare Cresap Villa, a Loretto Heights College Alumna (1955), paper painted with bright yellow gold, deep red, and blues, mounted on wood.

“Retablo” or “Santa” of Our Lady of Loreto on tinwork, made by Clare Cresap Villa, a santera and a Loretto Heights alumna (1955). The Heritage Center has two of these. One was presented to the archives by the artist and one was given to Sr. Mary Luke…

Painted wood retablo or "Santa" of Nuestra Senora de Loreto (Our Lady of Loreto) with brown skin, standing on a pedestal with a red curtain surrounding her. Signed on the back by Clare Cresap Villa, santera, 2006, with a mark indicating that Villa…

Two identical prints of colored drawings of Loretto Heights College in Denver, CO, with labeled mountain peaks in background and signs for buildings and roads below. Made by Lawrence Van Alstyne. Signed in lower right corner of drawing; copyright…

Oval-shaped dish, gold edged, rim lime green with pink flowers and leaves painted by Mary Hayden, the first graduate of Loretto Heights College in 1921. "Mary C. Hayden / May 1918" written on back. Maker's mark also on back. China painting was one of…

Octagonal china platter, white base. Rim painted gold, interior painted with wide brown edge and thin gold edge. Two sets of pinecones painted on interior in brown and gold. Maker's mark on back. Also handwritten on back: "Mary C Hayden / Mt St…

China punch bowl, painted in shades of pink and red with gold rims and handles. The two handles have faces sculpted on the ends. Red, pink, and green floral and leaf motif on the exterior; interior painted pink with leaves in darker shades of pink.…

Print of a pen-and-ink drawing of Sanders House at St. Mary's Academy in Denver, CO. Labeled; signed in lower right corner by Colorado artist Pat Patterson. A biography of Patterson is attached to the back of the frame.

Hand-painted vase, red roses on Bavarian china; "Sister M, Martin, 1912" painted on the bottom. Once in the front entranceway of Academy building at Loretto Motherhouse. Sr. Mary Martin Camp, SL (1844-1924), was born in Louisville, KY, and spent four…

Joseph P. Machebeuf Medal, belonged to Mother Mary Luke Tobin, SL, Superior General and President 1958-1970. Front: profile of Bishop Machebeuf, 1812-1889, with a background of mountains and a tower. Text: “Onward into the keeping of Providence.”…