During the month of July, I am celebrating the work of American printmakers, displaying six new graphic pieces from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection on biblical themes from the Creation of the World to the End of Time. Jewish Artist Ben-Zion leads the way with an expressionistic etching of the moment when Adam receives the breath of God and becomes a living being, now on view in the Old Testament Tales gallery of the Bible Stories and Parables section. Philadelphia Lithographer Benton Spruance gives us a sinuously sensual interpretation of Jacob's wrestling match with the Angel recorded in Genesis 32: 22-32. The human figure is also unveiled in a wood engraving of Ruth and Naomi (left) by Boston-born Artist Letterio Calapai, an illustration for a collection of Bible stories in African dialect by African-American Writer Lorenz Graham. The Spruance lithograph and Calapai wood engraving are located in the Heroes of the Bible gallery in the Bible Stories and Parables section. Two other images illustrate passages from the Gospels. In his wood engraving of the Adoration of the Christ Child in an Art Deco style, John J. A. Murphy incorporates foreboding images of the Crucifixion. Sister Mary Corita Kent's serigraph of Christ on the Cross suffering over Jerusalem shows the influence of Modernist art movements like Cubism. My mini-series ends with an apocalyptic vision of a man sheltered from worldly troubles in the palm of God's hand in a serigraph by Chesapeake Bay Artist Ruth Starr Rose from a series inspired by African-American spirituals. These last three images can be found in The Coming of Christ, The Passion of Christ, and the Until the End of Time galleries of the Life of Christ section. (John Kohan)