Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SECTION III: The General Assembly of 1923 condemned the preaching of Dr. Fosdick, without hearing his case and without the method of conference, patience and love enjoined by Jesus Christ...
...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
...been so before" is the universal cry. "Whence comes the Christ? Is he a fitting leader for us refined and sanctimonious folk?" Bellows' Christ makes no reply. Bellows says he did not strive for an outlandish effect, a strange interpretation in painting the picture...
Meanwhile the artistic laity, the pillars of Art, rush to attend the exhibition. Those who saw the "varnishing" of Bellows' Christ include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Conde Nast, Frank Munsey, Paul D. Cravath, Thomas W. Lamont, Herbert B. Swope, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. John H. Hammond, Mrs. August Belmont...
Craftsmen from Oberammergau visited Manhattan and in a short time sold $65,000 of their wares. The craftsmen were Passion Players because in the year 1167 the great emperor Barbarossa founded the play and the people of Oberammergau solemnly vowed to dramatize the "Passion" of Christ once every decade-a promise which was broken only by the Great War. Between plays, these men ply their trades of potters, carvers, painters...