Retablo of Tivurcia Gallego

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Latin American Art

Retablo of Tivurcia Gallego,

1917

Artist unrecorded

2020-289
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Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Information

Title
Retablo of Tivurcia Gallego
Dates

1917

Maker
Artist unrecorded
Medium

Oil on metal

Dimensions

20.3 × 15.3 cm (8 × 6 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jorge Durand and Patricia Arias

Object Number
2020-289
Description

El Dia 24 de Enero de 1917 acontecició la desgracia a la Sra. Tivurcia Gallego en el pueblo de Darginfilio Texas que llendo por la via del tren ella y un chamaquito que llebaba de la mano y al ir sobre un puente los alcansaron unos trabajadores en un puchicarro con maletas y no pudiendo acerse ni para un lado ni para otro invocó a la Sma. Virgen de San Juan habiendo sufrido nada mas unos golpes ella y el chamaquito nada mas sonzo del golpe habiendose librado de un peligro mayor y en accion de gracias dedica este retablo.

The misfortune happened to Mrs. Tivurcia Gallego on the 24th day of January of 1917, in the town of Daingerfield, Texas. She was walking along a train track holding a little boy by the hand, and as she went over a bridge, some workers with trunks overtook them in a push car. Being unable to move to either side, she invoked the Holiest Virgin of San Juan and suffered nothing more than a few blows, and the little boy no more than a glancing blow, having freed himself from greater danger. In thanksgiving she dedicates this retablo.

Culture
Mexican
Type
ex-votos, paintings
Materials
oil paint, metal
Techniques
painting (image-making)
Subject
votive images

Jorge Durand and Patricia Arias,Guadalajara, Mexico, gift; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2020.

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