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A drawing of a large nude female emerging from a swirling mass of nude female figures with a ha…
The Heavenly Mother
A drawing of a large nude female emerging from a swirling mass of nude female figures with a ha…
A drawing of a large nude female emerging from a swirling mass of nude female figures with a hand reaching down to touch the arm of an infant sitting on the thigh of a crouched nude figure.
The Heavenly Mother, Kahlil Gibran, 1920, pencil on wove paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, Courtesy of Fundación Carso, A.C.

The Heavenly Mother

Date1920
MediumPencil on wove paper
DimensionsMatted: 30 × 24 inches (76.2 × 61 cm)
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the book "The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems," 1920 [also known as "The Lament of the Forerunner"]
MarkingsStamped, "Strathmore [Trademark]"
Credit LineGift of Mary Haskell Minis.
Object number1950.8.21
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