The exhibition, from the collection of Edward and Diane Knippers, covers many styles and approaches to the grand and minor themes of the Old and New Testaments. Themes such as Adam and Eve, Hagar in the Desert, and Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife from the Hebrew Scriptures balance images such as The Visitation, Christ Carries His Cross and St. John on Patmos from the New Testament.

Artists in the exhibit include George Rouault, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Fernand Leger, Otto Dix, Kaethe Kollwitz, and Maurlee Denis. But so are the less famous, such as the artist Hellen Katherine Forbes, the primitive painter Clementine Hunter, Jacques Vilon’s teacher Bernard Naudin, Karl Caspar, J-G Daragnes, Sadao Watanabe and others.

This exhibition represents an ongoing collection that the Knippers began more then 30 ears ago. In the catalogue essay, “Collecting: An Act of Faith,” Edward Knippers states, “True collectors know that the art they have bought is not really theirs. In reality the collector is just one link in a chain of collectors and dealers and even charlatans--preservers all--that goes back to the artist’s studio.”

The show is on a three year tour under the auspices of Christians in Visual Arts, an international fellowship and clearinghouse for artists of faith.

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