El Milagro
ca. 1949
Color serigraph
15 ½” x 10 ¼”
The main focus of this color serigraph is a young girl with two long braids who is kneeling with her hands held clasped in prayer as she worships a figure of the Madonna and heart-shaped religious votive at an outdoor shrine in her small village in Mexico. She is experiencing a miracle, as she quietly looks up to witness a beam of light coming down from the heavens piercing through the top of the sanctuary and illuminating her angelic face.
The women around her are calmly going about their daily routines, carrying parcels from the outdoor market and the red-tiled stucco buildings and abstracted landscape present a well-ordered environment.