Blanche Perry Collection - 29 Matching Results

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[Baptistry Interpretation for Elkhart, Kansas Church]

Description: Handwritten essay by Perry entitled "Interpretation of Baptistry painting at Elkhart, Kansas." Essay describes scene along the Jordan River, Mt. Hernon, and Mt. Lebanon that inspired this painting. Elements and symbols mentioned include willow trees, eucalyptus, pines, cedar, sun beam cross, light, cloud shaped dove, water, rock, stone, sheep. Manuscript contains numerous edits.
Date: October 1952
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting for Fowler, Colorado]

Description: A black and white photograph of the painting created by Blanche Perry for a Church of Christ in Fowler, Colorado. Scene shows wide, calm water with trees and wooded banks and mountains in the background. Photograph is entitled "Sunrise over Jordan." Inscription on back reads in part, "The Sun of Righteousness over the Jordan Hills. Fall coloring."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting for Fowler, Colorado #2]

Description: A black and white photograph of the painting created by Blanche Perry for a Church of Christ in Fowler, Colorado. Scene shows wide, calm water with trees and wooded banks and mountains in the background. Photograph is entitled "Sunrise over Jordan."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting for Perrin, Texas]

Description: A black and white photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Perrin, Texas. Painting no. 198 or no. 199. Scene depicts wide water with different types of trees, hills, clouds, shafts of light. Both photographs taken of painting outside against a brick wall. Inscription reads "Sunrise over Jordan" and on back "Jordan River ... The Sun of Righteousness Over the Jordan Hills."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting for Perrin, Texas #2]

Description: Photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Perrin, Texas. Painting no. 198 or no. 199. Scene depicts wide water with different types of trees, hills, clouds, shafts of light. Both photographs taken of painting outside against a brick wall. Inscription reads "Sunrise over Jordan" and on back "Jordan River ... The Sun of Righteousness Over the Jordan Hills."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting for Ulysses, Kansas]

Description: Photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Ulysses, Kansas. Photograph shows painting installed in the church building. Inscription on back reads, "Oct. 7 to 10 -- eleventh opening day of new building. Stayed at Bro. and Sis. Earl Williams. Theme of painting The Mountain of God or The Church of the Living God. Bro. Pickartz minister."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting in Elkhart, Kansas]

Description: A black and white photograph of the baptistry painting created by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Elkhart, Kansas installed in the church building with curtains, the pulpit, and the communion table.
Date: October 1952
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Color Painting of Capital Heights Church Mural]

Description: A color painting in miniature of the baptistry painting for the Capital Heights Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Signed and dated by Blanche Perry. Shows sun beam cross, dove shaped cloud, calm river, and tree lined banks.
Date: October 1941
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Letter from Russell Lockhart to Blanche Perry]

Description: Letter plus envelope from Russell Lockhart of the Church of Christ in South Parkersburg, West Virginia to Perry requesting a bapistry painting. Request for a painting was inspired by the painting Perry did for the church in Athens, Ohio. Mentions average size and attendance of the South Side congregation and various people and ministries in which the church is involved. Letter is typewritten on church letterhead.
Date: October 12, 1951
Creator: Lockhart, J. Russell
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Letter to Blanche Perry from Nashville, Tennessee]

Description: Incomplete letter from an unknown person to Perry thanking her for the baptistry painting done for the church in Nashville, Tennessee. Mentions several comments from other church members regarding how the painting affected them. Includes personal details of author.
Date: October 18, 1944
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library
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