| Title: | Pastoral Visit, Virginia |
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| Notes: | Richard Norris Brooke was an American artist known for portraying African American subjects in his genre pieces. His depictions were not caricatures, but rather sympathetic portraits, in contrast to many of his contemporaries. Pastoral Visit, Viriginia shows a pastor being welcomed by a kind and humble family for a Sunday dinner at their house. The mother serves the pastor as the children and father sit patiently. The father guards the cigar box, which traditionally held the congregation’s offering for the pastor that Sunday. On the chair between the father and pastor lies a banjo, perhaps for a bit of after-dinner entertainment. The faithful and loving service of this family does not go unnoticed as they practice “what is right” according to the ways of the Lord (Ps. 25:9). |
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| Date: | 1881 |
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| Artist: | Brooke, Richard Norris, 1847-1920 |
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| Building: | National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Washington
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| State: | DC
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Ephesians 1:11-23
Psalm 25:1-10
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| Lectionary links: | ARegn
BDiv
CAdvt01
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| General Subject: | Wisdom
Caring
Culture: African American
Culture: Black
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| Attribution: | Brooke, Richard Norris, 1847-1920. Pastoral Visit, Virginia, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57807 [retrieved September 14, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Pastoral_Visit,_Virgina,_by_Richard_Norris_Brooke,_1881_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01173.JPG. |
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| Record Number: | 57807
Last Updated: 2022-04-28 14:29:25
Record Created: 2020-07-25 14:07:40 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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