Santa Cruz Church, Manila

 

Elizabeth Keith

  1887 - 1956 (biography)

c. 1924  

color woodcut 

15 13/16 x 11" image size 

pencil, lower right margin 

Edition unknown 

titled in pencil on verso with "(35)" 

Not in Miles 

antique-white laid Japanese hosho 

published 

Watanabe 

22903 

SOLD

This large color woodcut is not in the Miles catalogue raisonne. It depicts the Santa Cruz Church in Manila, Philippines. This impression is titled by the artist in pencil on the verso. Santa Cruz Church is a Baroque church located in Plaza Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz district, Manila, Philippines. It was built when the arrabal (suburb) of Santa Cruz was established by the Jesuits in the early 1600s. The church had undergone many repairs and reconstruction, with the last reconstruction done in the 1950s. Today, the church architecture employs a California Spanish Mission façade silhouette with the usual Filipino (Asian-Hispanic) baroque ornamentation. The church facade is topped with an effigy statue of Our Lady of the Pillar, the patroness of the church whose feast happens during the second week of October.