SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 nine drawer chest backed with beautiful hand marbled

backed with beautiful hand marbled paper

carved whimsy would make a great

made for chocolate I think

and trains (it was a lifetime railroad pass that allowed him to travel beyond the family farm in rural Ohio to pursue his other subjects)

11 1/8” x 9 1/16”” as mounted on card

SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 nine drawer chest backed with beautiful hand marbledI 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