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C Williams

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Jun 3, 2003, 9:12:55 AM6/3/03
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I'm trying to find any links to a painting I saw on an art program on TV
a while back. I can't remember the name of the artist or the painting -
but it was a fairly prominent artist, so I'm hoping someone can
recognise it from the description.

I've been searching all over the net for any reference to it - but so
far I've only come up with one mention of it - and that source doesn't
mention the title or artist either :)

... but the description they give is pretty good - so I'm going to
blatantly copy it:

"Some years ago a prominent artist produced a painting of the boy Jesus
at work in the Nazareth carpenter's shop of His stepfather Joseph. The
workshop was depicted in realistic detail, filled with the tools and
lumber of the trade. Piles of sawdust and wood chips abounded. The
figures of Joseph and Jesus were at the center of the painting, as the
skilled hands of the master carpenter guided those of his young son in
carefully shaping the wood on their workbench. The painting was surely a
masterpiece, but its most striking feature was not the rich detail of
the workshop or the powerful depiction of the two central figures.
Instead, what immediately catches the observer's eye is the shadow cast
across the entire scene by the afternoon sun streaming through an open
widow. It is the shadow of a cross. The dark shade of that shadow cross
seems to reach out toward Jesus, dominating and demanding, even in this
carefree scene from His youth."

I thought the painting was titled "Shadow of the cross", but I'm
probably wrong as that phrase doesn't generate anything worthwhile in
the search engines.

Using descriptions of the scene I keep getting links to Holman Hunt's
"Shadow of Death" and some strange 'miraculous' painting in a New Mexico
church - but not what I want.

Any help/info/links would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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