1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin school supplies making me think as much

making me think as much of folk art carved miniature books and bibles than as anything (including for the fact that the slab at his back is carved like a book as well) but I’m really not sure of its origins

I have found no matches for it out there anywhere though

and I think it really holds up whatever one places it in proximity to

as well as for teaching matching and sequence

but while the burners glee into the ashes

1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin school supplies making me think as muchThis is one of two marvelously naive mid 20th century ex voto retablos I purchased from a seller in California, quite similar in manner such that I might guess done by the same person, but with clearly different styles of writing at the bottoms so perhaps not, or perhaps the paintings were made for the subjects, who then painted the texts. Whatever the case, wonderful I think, with this super folky Virgin, feeling to me as holy as it gets, receiving