About Us:
Richard Henry ("Hank") Lee opened San Angel Folk Art Gallery 1989 in San Antonio, TX after a decade spent traveling throughout Mexico and Latin America, meeting folk artists and collecting their works. With degrees in both business and visual arts, he sought to create a gallery that supported the vast field of visual folk arts by curating and showing some of the most accomplished folk artists of the day. Shortly after opening San Angel Folk Art gallery, Hank began to feature the work of local artists and artists in the immediate Southwest. As time passed, San Angel Folk Art expanded its collection to include the greater U.S. south and southwest, Europe, and Africa.
Today San Angel Folk Art Gallery curates and maintains one of the world’s most provocative and comprehensive collections of folk, outsider, visionary, and vernacular art, featuring artists from Mexico, Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Africa. Works from San Angel have been purchased by museums and collectors worldwide. San Angel Folk Art has been featured in Raw Visions, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Boston Herald, Tradiciones, Rumbo, The Los Angeles Magazine, Lifescapes, and The Southwest Gallery Guide as well as on the BBC, Telemundo, and Televisa networks, as well as the television series Rare Visions and Roadside Attractions.
