SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 wall hanging shaving mirror and contemporary culture’s annihilation of

and contemporary culture’s annihilation of intellectual diversity

where the crossing strips of wood were lost

which includes both the names Mary Kerrvck and Johanna Babbit inside

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Based on a few others I have found out there in the same vein (including a few in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum) I believe 1850-1900 fraternal

SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 wall hanging shaving mirror and contemporary culture’s annihilation ofI splurged a bit (by my standards) on this one, but couldn't not do so truly among my very favorite ex voto retablos I've ever seen, and I think something of a folk art masterpiece! I find those two kneeling women with raised hands and very painterly polka dotted dresses at right as perfectly full of life as anything out there, and then this tiny woman in black and white kneeling by her tiny bed (and what a marvelously visceral spikiness to the that