Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving mid-century bowl with lodges in every state

with lodges in every state

The design is rendered in four rich

tweezers and the like

including I believe a ruled one--but there is no mark anywhere on this that I can find

The box is stamped Phang Kim Tjoeng and Banka Blinjoe on the bottom

Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving mid-century bowl with lodges in every stateThis 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