Small Miracles

September 2, 2005 – February 12, 2006
Print Gallery

Small Miracles explores some of the ways that artists represent miracles in art, and presents 28 works on paper that evoke or allude to the miraculous. This exhibition includes traditional representations of miracles, such as the Old Testament’s Crossing of the Red Sea and the New Testament’s Raising of Lazarus. A recent acquisition, Jehan Duvet’s The Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, depicts the worship of workers of false miracles—those deceptive, wondrous works that evil spirits can produce. A number of the works in this exhibition go beyond representing a strictly theological definition of a miracle, including a collage by Joseph Cornell, whose vision of the world, along with the poet Walt Whitman, knows “of nothing else but miracles.” Some works, through their extraordinary imagery and technique, produce in the viewer a profound sense of wonder. Small Miracles was organized by Amy Worthen, curator of prints.

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