Ex-Voto: Giving Thanks for the Recovery of a Daughter, Retablo, dated 1895 22166 American modernist landscape of two

American modernist landscape of two buildings and a tree

The painted and carved motifs we see today vividly demonstrate just how highly evolved the Plains artisans’ sense of color palette and spatial composition was

and their children

Titled and dated on reverse

and bronze

Ex-Voto: Giving Thanks for the Recovery of a Daughter, Retablo, dated 1895 22166 American modernist landscape of twoEx Voto: Giving Thanks for the Recovery of a Daughter. Oil on tin, dated 1895. Anonymous Mexican artist with a contemporary custom frame handcrafted by artisan Michael Blatnik. The text reads: "Pare mayor gloria de Dios y aumento de su culto, bajo la advocacin de la Preciosa Sangre de Christo, ofresco este retablo como un testimonio de gratitud por haber dado la salud a mi hija Maria Amalia Gusman Hernandez. Jose Miguel Gusman, Abril de 1895"