Festival of Saint John
Artist:
Jose Francisco Borges
(Brazilian, born 1935)
Date: 1993
General region:Bezerros, Brazil
Medium: Wood block print on paper
Dimensions:
image: 10 1/4 × 9 in. (26 × 22.9 cm)
frame: 18 × 16 1/2 in. (45.7 × 41.9 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased through funds provided by the Folk Art Acquisition Fund
Object number: 93.46.2
Copyright: © Jose Francisco Borges
Exhibition History: Reading Public Museum, Reading Pennsylvania, April 14 - July 15, 2007
Label Text
J. Miguel is the son of José Francisco Borges, a Brazilian folk poet and graphic artist, started out selling chapbooks on market day by singing songs related to the stories he sold. Later, he realized that if he, too, could make the woodblock print images on the covers of these books, he would also be able to produce these popular pamphlets himself, thereby cutting his costs. Today, he is one of Brazil's most illustrious folk artists, and he makes a wide variety of chapbooks and other graphics that are bought in local markets or sold to foreign collectors and museums. The prints shown here are their interpretations of Brazilian folk culture, history, and religion.
(Marion Oettinger, 1998)
(Marion Oettinger, 1998)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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