Alligator (left)
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"At Neutrogena [corporation offices], two-legged, four-legged, and no-legged animals abounded. There were big ones, small ones, and mostly imaginary ones…A most interesting group of alligators and crocodiles found their way from all over the world to the office of the director of medical affairs. You could say he was up to his "derriere" in crocs. Perhaps the largest of these with the biggest grin and the slowest bite was one made by the noted New Mexican wood carver, Leroy Archuleta. This friendly looking beast makes me smile…as long as he stays in the wood!" Lloyd Cotsen, "Looking Behind My Eye," in The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, p. 28.
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A.1995.93.2412
Alligator (left)
Artist: Leroy Archuleta, Hispanic-American
Tesuque, New Mexico
Wood, paint, glass marbles
1994
34 x 93" (86 1/4 x 236 1/4 cm.)
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Crocodile (right)
United States of America
Twentieth century
Wood, paint, nails
26 x 73 ˝" (66 x 186.6 cm.)
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