Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley [Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939]
Date
c. 1939Medium
Blue, brown, black ink and graphite on paper with guidelines in graphiteCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
19 x 12 1/2 in.Description & Inscriptions
[verso in graphite]: from Poem by / Mary Baker Eddy / "Christ my Refuge"
Above an illustration of a young woman holding a document and standing in a church, Oakley illuminates the last lines of Eddy’s poem: My prayer, some daily good to do To Thine, for Thee; An offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.
Above an illustration of a young woman holding a document and standing in a church, Oakley illuminates the last lines of Eddy’s poem: My prayer, some daily good to do To Thine, for Thee; An offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.
