Nancy Schnarr-Bruell, an artist from Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, created this three-dimensional versio
Nancy Schnarr-Bruell, an artist from Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, created this three-dimensional version of an illustration in The Christ Child, a 1931 children’s book by Maud and Miska Petersham. The three-dimensional version of the Adoration of the Shepherds was handcarved and sewn, and includes a backdrop created by her husband, John Bruell. The Petershams’ books were well regarded by Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn; Mildred gave copies of The Christ Child to over 100 families and friends in the year 1949 alone. The Pitcairns’ enthusiasm for The Christ Child was so great that in the late 1930s they commissioned Frank Snyder to paint a life-size interpretation of the illustration of the Adoration of the Shepherds for Glencairn, their newly-completed home in Bryn Athyn. A reinterpretation based on the original book illustration and the Snyder painting (which has not survived intact) was completed by Bryn Athyn artist Edwin Herder in 2016, and now hangs above the fireplace in Glencairn’s Upper Hall during the Christmas season (http://ow.ly/AUQh30mO8po). Glencairn’s World Nativities exhibition presents dozens of three-dimensional Nativity scenes collected from around the world. The “Christmas in the Castle” tour reveals how the holiday was celebrated in Glencairn when it was the private home of the Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn family (1940s to 1970s). http://ow.ly/hM8E30mEHLB -- source link
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