Traveling Shows
Selections from the art collection of Edward and Diane Knippers are available for rent. Click on the name of the show to see the pieces included. For more information on show rental or individual pieces, click "contact the artist." The Artist and the Bible This exhibition from the collection of Edward and Diane Knippers covers many styles and approaches to the grand and minor themes of the Old and New Testaments. Themes such as Adam and Eve, Hagar in the Desert, and Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife from the Hebrew Scriptures balance themes such as The Visitation, Christ Carries His Cross, and St. John on Patmos from the New Testament. Well known artists such as Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Fernand Leger, Otto Dix, Kaethe Kollwitz, and Maurice Denis are included. But so are the less famous such as the WPA artist Helen Katherine Forbes, the Primitive painter Clementine Hunter, Jacques Villon’s teacher Bernard Naudin, Karl Caspar, J-G Daragnes, Sadao Watanabe and others. This exhibition represents an ongoing collecting project that the Knippers began more than thirty years ago. In the catalogue essay, “Collecting: An Act of Faith,” Edward Knippers states, “True collectors know that the art they have bought is not really theirs. In reality the collector is just one link in a chain of collectors and dealers and even charlatans – preservers all – that goes back to the artist’s studio.” The illustrated catalogue provides curatorial notes to help the viewer understand less obvious subjects and lesser known artists. The show is on a three-year tour under the auspices of Christians in Visual Arts (CIVA) an international fellowship and clearinghouse for artists of faith. Begun in 1979 CIVA now has 1,400 members and a mailing list of 6,000. In addition to traveling shows, CIVA publishes a newsletter, an illustrated member’s directory, and Codex CIVA, a limited edition of original prints by member artist on a variety of themes. CIVA also sponsors a biennial conference. Information can be found at www.civa.org. The Artist and the Bible--Images TALMUD and the art of Ben-Zion and Marc Chagall The title TALMUD is appropriate for this show that brings together the Biblical work of two of the most important Jewish artists of the 20th Century. Even though Talmud deals traditionally with text and not image, these images are commentaries on the text of Scripture in the best of the Talmudic tradition. Not only can this tradition continue as we meditate on the individual subjects of these works, but the Talmudic dialogue is also accomplished as we view the works of these two artists side by side. It is hoped that together, you and the artists will set in motion a joyous interchange of instruction and learning, perhaps even holy delight, that will not fade. Cross-Purposes

Traveling Shows

Selections from the art collection of Edward and Diane Knippers are available for rent. Click on the name of the show to see the pieces included. For more information on show rental or individual pieces, click "contact the artist."

The Artist and the Bible

This exhibition from the collection of Edward and Diane Knippers covers many styles and approaches to the grand and minor themes of the Old and New Testaments. Themes such as Adam and Eve, Hagar in the Desert, and Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife from the Hebrew Scriptures balance themes such as The Visitation, Christ Carries His Cross, and St. John on Patmos from the New Testament.

Well known artists such as Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Fernand Leger, Otto Dix, Kaethe Kollwitz, and Maurice Denis are included. But so are the less famous such as the WPA artist Helen Katherine Forbes, the Primitive painter Clementine Hunter, Jacques Villon’s teacher Bernard Naudin, Karl Caspar, J-G Daragnes, Sadao Watanabe and others.

This exhibition represents an ongoing collecting project that the Knippers began more than thirty years ago. In the catalogue essay, “Collecting: An Act of Faith,” Edward Knippers states, “True collectors know that the art they have bought is not really theirs. In reality the collector is just one link in a chain of collectors and dealers and even charlatans – preservers all – that goes back to the artist’s studio.” The illustrated catalogue provides curatorial notes to help the viewer understand less obvious subjects and lesser known artists.

The show is on a three-year tour under the auspices of Christians in Visual Arts (CIVA) an international fellowship and clearinghouse for artists of faith. Begun in 1979 CIVA now has 1,400 members and a mailing list of 6,000. In addition to traveling shows, CIVA publishes a newsletter, an illustrated member’s directory, and Codex CIVA, a limited edition of original prints by member artist on a variety of themes. CIVA also sponsors a biennial conference. Information can be found at www.civa.org.
The Artist and the Bible--Images

TALMUD and the art of Ben-Zion and Marc Chagall

The title TALMUD is appropriate for this show that brings together the Biblical work of two of the most important Jewish artists of the 20th Century. Even though Talmud deals traditionally with text and not image, these images are commentaries on the text of Scripture in the best of the Talmudic tradition. Not only can this tradition continue as we meditate on the individual subjects of these works, but the Talmudic dialogue is also accomplished as we view the works of these two artists side by side. It is hoped that together, you and the artists will set in motion a joyous interchange of instruction and learning, perhaps even holy delight, that will not fade.

Cross-Purposes