Plan for Detail of Penrose Reredos (Mother and Child)

Artist Eugenie F. Shonnard (American, 1886 - 1978)

Datecirca 1943

Place DepictedColorado Spring, Colorado, United States of America

Mediumpencil on paper

DimensionsImage: 36 1/8 × 36 in. (91.8 × 91.4 cm)

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineGift of Eugenie F. Shonnard Estate, 1978

Object number2008.1.126ax

DescriptionPlan for a detail of a proposed reredos commissioned by Julie Penrose for a chapel in Colorado Springs, CO, a design that was never executed in full. A seated woman faces to the right and bends her face down to the infant she holds. She wears a long draped dress and has a braid over her right shoulder. The left and right edges have an alternating pattern of acorns and flowers. The upper edge has a design of half-flowers. On the far left is a segment of parallel diagonal lines which curve at the edges as if wrapping around a column.

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