Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving animal painting as well as terrific in

as well as terrific in a farmhouse

and a terrifically proud rooster at the top

Plus an introduction that tells the history of La Florida—located on a “glorious corner of Havana” previously occupied by “The Silver Pine” and now transformed into “a refuge of Art and Poetry”

) sculpted in relief

as the lid sits at just the slightest bit off square (maybe 1-2 degrees)

Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving animal painting as well as terrific inThis striking wood engraving by Olin Dows (1904 1981) titled Women Washing (Taxco) is one of a series of prints the artist created while traveling through Mexico and Central America in the 1930s. As with many of his works in this series, the figures are anonymous, their faces veiled (I assume these women are nuns), suggesting multitudes of such women, engaged in similarly laborious tasks, and also imparting a sense of reverence toward them. Through