The Bowden Collections: Chagall and the Bible

Chagall and the Bible

This show contains:

26 Chagall etchings and lithographs
digital files for each image
a file for a handout
text for labels to accompany each piece
packing and shipping instructions

Adam and Eve

Calendar of Exhibitions

Sept 15 to Dec 28, 2012
St. Christopher’s Church
Chatham, MA 02633

February 1- March 1, 2013
Camelback Bible Church
Paradise Valley, AZ 85253

Verve 1956 title page

Marc Chagall (1877–1895) is perhaps the foremost visual interpreter of the Bible in the 20th Century. His art is filled with his own reoccurring symbols of visual memory and imagination. He said he did not see the Bible, but he dreamed it, even as a child. Chagall’s vision of the Old Testament combines his Jewish heritage and modern art giving us a rich display of symbol and imagination.

This exhibition includes eight of the 105 etchings originally intended to be illustrations for an Old Testament Bible. Also included are 16 brilliantly colored images from his 1956 and 1960 suites of Bible lithographs. Each is a delightful and colorful interpretation that lets the viewer enter the worlds of the Bible and Chagall.

It is most interesting that Chagall, a Jew, would have used the Crucifixion in so many of his works, yet numerous of his pieces include the Crucifixion as a reference or the subject of his paintings. Mystical Crucifixion and Christ in the Clock, two colored lithographs in this exhibition, demonstrate his fascination with the this theme.

The exhibition's artwork includes 8 pieces from Verve 1960 series