File 388 - Assorted prints, postcards, greeting cards

91 prints : col, b&w ; 30.0 x 40.0 cm or smaller.- 2 boxed sets of prints.- 10 postcards.- 12 greeting cards - 1 calendar

File consists of various reproduction prints, blank postcards and greeting cards. These prints, postcards, and cards, include mostly religious images, but also a few geographical images. File includes some of the following:

• one black and white print of a drawing of Jesus wearing the crown of thorns
• one colour print of a painting with four women dressed in white. Annotation on back of print in unknown hand: "Four Women Martyrs by Sr. Marion Honors. in honor of the women who gave their lives in El Salvador."
• one black and white photograph (13.9 cm x 9.0 cm) of an unknown priest. Annotation on back of photograph: "file: photos"
• fifteen copies of the Trinity Icon, with no annotations
• 1 box set containing 48 reprints of etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn [etchings are numbered and are out of order]
• 1 box set containing 12 reprints of paintings by Aloys Schreiber, featuring historical comments [in German], and depicting country life in Germany
• Reproductions of pieces (drawings and paintings) by Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Peter Paul Rubens
• Reprints of pages of religious books and frescoes
• Several copies of a drawing of Pope John Paul II
• Postcards and cards include Vincent van Gogh paintings, photographs inside churches, an airplane, Mount Saint Alphonsus (Esopus, NY), monasteries, Pope John Paul II, and other religious art (including some poems)
• 1 Rembrandt wall calendar from 1991 containing 12 Rembrandt prints, including Return of the Prodigal Son.

Because there are several copies of some of these prints, it is possible that Nouwen intended to send some of these with correspondence.

• Dutch
• German
• Russian

Title based on contents of the file.
File contains materials in German, Dutch, Russian.
A few of the prints of poems are signed 'with appreciation, Ralph'.

Added by L Joson, 27 June 2018