Olin Dows "Market: Riga" 1933 Wood Engraving Print shelf with drawer as pure a form as

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This one features a luscious cream glaze pooling over a variegated pale gray-blue

the contrast between finished dark wood and and black painted wood

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Olin Dows "Market: Riga" 1933 Wood Engraving Print shelf with drawer as pure a form asThis 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