"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a bit of loss

and a bit of loss to the black of the numbers on a few of them

I don't know (through would love to know

with the only information on it is a very faintly handwritten "cardinal

including receiving letters from Franklin Roosevelt and Lady Bird Johnson

Written on the flip side of the shell

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a bit of lossThis is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the