The next featured artworks of the Americas from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection come from Northeastern Brazil and the Borges family of "string literature" woodcut artists. You can now view three new prints in the image gallery of the Brazilian Cordel Woodcuts page in the Schools of Sacred Art section by Givanildo Borges, a nephew of the founder of this folk art dynasty, Master Printmaker Jose Francisco Borges, whose simple figurative studies recall the work of his internationally renowned uncle. There are two woodcuts of St. Francis, communing with the birds and the beasts. In one of them, the saint stands tall with a snake coiled around his neck next to a cactus, under a blazing sun typical of this semi-arid "outback" region of Brazil. A third woodcut shows Adam and Eve, sharing the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. (John Kohan)