Henry Ossawa Tanner – Heather Choate Davis

Let it be so

This early 20th-century painting of the annunciation seems to me to transcend time and place. This Mary could be any woman, this angel the messenger of any sort of epiphany— a new wisdom, a haunting reversal, clarity alone in the midnight hours. The sort of inescapable truth about our lives to which we can onlyContinue reading “Let it be so”