Object Details
- Creator
- Spears, Ethel, 1902 or 03-1974
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Christmas Card : 1 folded sheet : ill. ; 18 x 40 cm.
- Summary
- Card features a color print, image divided into five panels, each featuring abstracted human figures.
In the center panel are two figures representing Mary and the angel, and beneath them is a caption reading "The annunciation."
The other four panels are captioned "Matthew", "Luke", "Mark" and "John" and each figure is represented with the traditional attributes ascribed to him in Christian symbolism (a man, Matthew; a calf, Luke; a lion, Mark; and an eagle, John).
Card is not signed. - Citation
- Holiday card from Bill Brincka to Ethel Spears and Kathleen Blackshear, 19--. Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears papers, 1920-1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 19--
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)11323
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears papers, 1920-1991
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Christian art and symbolism
- Holidays
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_11323
