J. Borges Postcard - Dog

Black and white woodcut of a dog with a splendid collar and wagging tongue. Measures 6" x 4.25". Generic postcard back with notation of artwork and a square for a postage stamp. J. Borges was born in the countryside in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1935. His family had a farm where he worked until he was 8 years old, and by age 12, he attended school for the first time, but only for 10 months because his teacher moved away. At seventeen, his family moved to a city. By this time, he had worked as a carpenter, peddler, wall painter, potter, and more. As a child, his father had read to him from cordel leaflets (small chapbooks sold on the street and at fairs), and in the city, he began to sell them at popular fairs. Often on the front of the cordel leaflets were woodcut prints as illustrations. In 1964, he wrote his first cordel leaflet and later created his first woodcut, depicting the facade of a church. This was the beginning of his life as an artist. Chance meetings with authors and poets wh