The Christ Child-Retalba El Nino Perdido, (The Lost Child) a Retabla 1935 - 1942

E. Boyd painted *The Christ Child - Retalba El Nino Perdido* with watercolor in simple flat shapes. The warm red and gold of the image feels like a sacred space—a glow that pulls you in. I'm imagining Boyd making this and thinking about what it must have been like to be a child. Maybe they were thinking about the stories they heard growing up or the way the light filtered through stained glass windows. There's something about the way the figure is so deliberately rendered with thick, almost clumsy lines that feels genuine and tender. It’s like they're not trying to be perfect, just honest. And that, for me, is what makes it so moving, it reminds me of other painter’s work such as Bill Traylor, or even Bob Thompson. I find that artists are always talking to each other, across time and place, borrowing ideas, riffing off each other's work. Painting at its best is like a big, messy conversation and an ongoing inquiry into how we see and experience the world.