Selections from The Betty Byerley Retablo Collection

Retablos are one form of the religious art of Mexico. Painted on tin, these small, personal devotional paintings were purchased from artists/peddlers, who offered them door to door or sold them at stands set up around village churches during holidays and feast days. Retablos may depict Christ, Mary, the Virgin of the Guadalupe, the Holy Family, the Trinity as well as the Saints. These paintings were placed in home altars and were appealed to for help in times of trouble and thanked for life’s blessings. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.