Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving mid-century bowl head measures 1 5/8" wide

head measures 1 5/8" wide x 2" deep x 1 3/4" tall

The design is rendered in four rich

happy perched most anywhere or carried in a pocket as a good luck charm

enabling the carriage of much greater weight

but I am not 100% certain as it is unmarked and I have not found another like it)

Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving mid-century bowl head measures 1 5/8" wideThis 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