As we enter the last two months of the summer, my theme is the Hosts of Heaven with the Western Christian feast day in late September of Saint Michael and all the angels in mind. The quartet of artworks now on view in the From Realms of Glory gallery in the Themes of Faith section show worshipful angels in attendance on the Glorified Christ. They are the work of international artists whose careers span two centuries in a variety of styles and mediums. Born in 1893, German Printmaker Elisabeth Voigt created graphic works rooted in her homeland's rich history of printmaking from Renaissance Master Albrecht Durer to her instructor, Expressionist Artist Katthe Kollwitz, as we see in her busily baroque 1925 woodcut (left) of angelic trumpeters serenading Christ and the saints. Natalya Rusetska from the collective of Ukrainian Greek Catholic iconmakers in Lviv offers us a more ethereal glimpse of heaven where the Holy Face of Christ is framed by three concentric circles of cherubim and seraphim. In the glitter-sprinkled vision of the world to come from American Folk Artist Rudolph Valentino Bostic, the heavenly hosts go about their business like servants in a royal palace. In the final image of the four, Nicaraguan Artist Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz gives us a different take on the the Second Coming of Christ, depicting his angelic retinue as a band of bearded, sword-bearing brawlers! (John Kohan)