W.C. Rice REPENT Painting on Tin from Miracle Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama fly box which is interesting to me

which is interesting to me for the fact that 1863 was also the year the actual Red Cross was founded

and then clear glass sides lined with actual paper doilies inside

The two were married in the town of New Baltimore

and have never come across another tintype like this one

standing in front of what looks like it could either be an alter

W.C. Rice REPENT Painting on Tin from Miracle Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama fly box which is interesting to meIt's not very often that I deal in pieces made by known artists, but this one crossed my path and I could not resist. It was created by visionary folk figure Reverend W. C. Rice (1930 2004) much more about him below as part of his Cross Garden just outside Prattville, Alabama. And I do believe it speaks for itself! More about Rice courtesy of John Foster writing for Spaces (spacesarchives. org): William Carlton Rice, a house painter, claimed God