Olin Dows "Market: Riga" 1933 Wood Engraving Print Egyptian imagery Based on the paper label

Based on the paper label glued to his base

but it's one of my favorite things

a "Nutting Party

I found it at a terrific estate sale in Concord

or flowering branches

Olin Dows "Market: Riga" 1933 Wood Engraving Print Egyptian imagery Based on the paper labelThis striking wood engraving by Olin Dows (1904 1981) titled Market: Riga is one of a series of prints the artist created while traveling in the 1930s (I believe Riga refers to Riga, Latvia, though the concentration of the artist's travels during this time were in Mexico and Central America.) As with many of his works in this series, the figures are anonymous, their faces veiled by scarves, tightly knotted at their necks, suggesting an infinite