{"id":8932,"date":"2020-04-18T18:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2020-04-18T18:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:44:06","slug":"bryan-stevens-1944-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/bryan-stevens-1944-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Stevens, 1944-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bryan-Stevens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bryan-Stevens-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bryan-Stevens-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bryan-Stevens.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>It was about 40 years ago that I bought my first mask (Mexican) at a flea market. A few years later I met Bryan who lived in the neighboring town of York, PA, and he really got me excited about collecting. Though he was a psychiatrist by profession, he curated one of the most important Mexican mask collections in the world. He was always generous with his time and taught me a great deal about the folk art and anthropology of Mexico. He was also kind enough to write the preface to &#8220;Masks of the World,&#8221; a book written by me and Troy Yohn in 2015. I will greatly miss him.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/978-0-7643-4027-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/978-0-7643-4027-7-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/978-0-7643-4027-7-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/978-0-7643-4027-7.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about 40 years ago that I bought my first mask (Mexican) at a flea market. A few years later I met Bryan who lived in the neighboring town of York, PA, and he really got me excited about collecting. Though he was a psychiatrist by profession, he curated one of the most important Mexican mask collections in the world. He was always generous with his time and taught me a great deal about the folk art and anthropology of Mexico. He was also kind enough to write the preface to &#8220;Masks of the World,&#8221; a book written by me and Troy Yohn in 2015. I will greatly miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}