Word: stallknecht
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...years Artist Alice Stallknecht (Mrs. Carl Van Buren Wight) has summered in Chatham. Since her husband's retirement from a Greek professorship at Johns Hopkins she has lived there permanently. Once an art student in New York and Philadelphia, Artist Stallknecht did not take up painting seriously until last year. This year she decided to decorate Old Congregational Church. In five weeks she turned out a mural 9 ft. by 20 ft. in three panels. Her Christ is tall, slight, blue-eyed, dark-haired, aged about 30. The face is an idealized combination of many Cape Cod fisherfolk...
Critics found Artist Stallknecht's mural raw, bold, naive, much like the works she exhibited in Manhattan's Ferargil galleries last May. Critics also recalled that modernized divinities are nothing new; Jacob Epstein's Christ was much discussed for his negroid appearance. Nor are real faces in religious pictures rare; many an Italian and Flemish noble and magnifico got himself and his offspring into a "Holy Family...