Expressionistic Mexican Folk Art Devotional Painting of Jesus on Wood Panel pottery bottles Somewhere along the way it

Somewhere along the way it lost the tip of its beak

so he was about 13 when he made these drawings

Theorem painting

wonderfully animated by a little black-hatted man with three grazing and resting cows and tiny little dog scampering across the brick bridge at the center--the perfect final touch

New Jersey--and was clearly much referenced (surely hung--and rehung-- in a studio or art department

Expressionistic Mexican Folk Art Devotional Painting of Jesus on Wood Panel pottery bottles Somewhere along the way itPhotos really don't do justice to this one; the colors are richer in person, and the painting icon, really has a strong presence and patina and sense of objecthood. I believe it is Mexican, early 20th century, though the wood panel it was painted on feels older than that. To me it feels Mexican folk art meets German Expressionism, with its boldness and graphicness making it feel akin to a woodblock print, and making the martyrdom of this Jesus feel