Noted historian, art aficionado dies at 80 in New Mexico

“Historian, art collector and author Larry Frank died in his sleep Monday afternoon at his home in Arroyo Hondo. He was 80.

His wife, artist Alyce Frank, described her husband as “fascinating and never boring. He was very sweet to me.”

Over more than four decades, Frank amassed what is generally considered the best collection of Spanish colonial santos, or saints, in private hands. He wrote several books on the artistic, cultural history of Northern New Mexico. He and historian Skip Miller co-authored in 2001 an ambitious and comprehensive three-volume work on the subject, A Land So Remote.”

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