Super Folky 1936 Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Figures, Candle, Deep Blue Ground inlaid wood music box and a particular personality to

and a particular personality to each

Forty cards total

and local trades

I've found a few others somewhat like it dating to around the beginning of the 20th century

and it looks lovely most anywhere

Super Folky 1936 Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Figures, Candle, Deep Blue Ground inlaid wood music box and a particular personality toNear impossible to read the hand painted cursive text along the bottom of this one, though I did manage for decipher the year, 1936. But what a marvelously expressive painting, much better in person hard to capture the deep lapis colored ground and the creams and blacks of the figures simultaneously, but they're rich and bold and glow y all at once. For me, about as earnestly holy feeling as could be, centered around the single flaming candle held