Composition study for a "Madonna and Child and Infant John the Baptist" Mural
Date
c. 1940Medium
Charcoal and graphite on paperCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
12 ¼ x9in.Description & Inscriptions
[within the triangular frame in graphite]: The wind bloweth where it listeth, and ye cannot / tell whence it cometh, so is every one that is born / Ho! Everyone That Thirsteth. Come ye to [the waters?]; [bottom right in graphite]: Mother & Child – Western
The inscriptions on either side of the figures paraphrase John 3:8.
The inscriptions on either side of the figures paraphrase John 3:8.
