Christ in art; notes on the John Powell Lenox collection

Christ in art; notes on the John Powell Lenox collection

Author: New York Public Library. John Powell Lenox collection

Year: 1920

CHRIST IN ART (NOTES ON THE JOHN POWELL LENOX COLLECTION) THE Art Division of the Library has, from the beginning, tried to satisfy the public interest in Bible pictures. These were to be found, not only in illustrated books, but in separate prints of all kinds, which could be arranged and classified so that a request for illustrations of a given Bible scene or portrait could be answered promptly and to some degree fully. Thus, a useful collection of pictures (especially of the Saviour) was being formed, supplemented by a classified lot of titles in the card catalogue, referring to numerous plates in books, or prints in portfolios shelved apart from the Bible collection, with such specialties, for instance, as "persepios" listed under Nativity. And now, at one stroke, through the generosity of Mr. John Powell Lenox, of Oak Park, Ill., there has come to the Library a wonderful body of pictorial documents dealing entirely with the life of Christ. The result of a quarter of a century of patient collecting, on the part of Mr. Lenox, these pictures, several thousand in number, are mounted in fifteen finely bound volumes with the general title "Christus in Arte." The prints are arranged