Can anyone read this signature? It's an artist's proof

I don't think this is student work. It's marked Artist's Proof II, Rev[elation] 12: 3-9 and Susan W Maupan????? 1966. It has something to do with the Red Dragon .. I think. Revelation imagery is always a little sketchy (ahem) to mess with.

 

the image might be still there...but that print is destroyed.....

 

Maryam...??

 

I think this was a real working proof and the artist wasn't all that kind to it to begin with.

 

Did you not notice that your photograph of the work is a dark blur?

The St. James Bible passage is:

"And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

Susan W. Mangam. Art instructor at Mount Holyoke. And marched in Selma in 1965 which may have informed her work the following year.

https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/object/mtholyoke:3473

Debora

 

Never mind.

 

Maupin.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mary+w+maupin

Edited, put the wrong link in, shes listed on askart but the dates are wrong.

 

Mary W. Maupin died in 1909!

Debora

 

King James, methinks.

 

That's very funny! Now I've exposed myself to all as a Sunday school drop-out!

Debora

 

Wrong first name. Marfan?

 

Never mind, how I got Mary I don’t know.


Edit: Now I know why I got Mary, my wife asked if our neighbor Mary called while I was looking at askart, good lord!

 

Not sure if this helps or not, but I did brighten it up a bit.

 

Thank you. Appreciate that. Oh, definitely Susan W. Magnam. I can see the marchers. (Selma must have been a seminal experience.)

Debora

 

Oho. I would never have gotten that. I did take better pictures but just used the quick and dirties for resizing. I bet it's Susan Mangam.

..and I'm betting the King James is what she was working from. It was in common use back in the 60s. Might have been a Catholic translation instead - I'm not as up on those. I use the NASB for late night, because it's what I grew up with, and NIV in public because it's in more common use.

 

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23613101/fitchburg-sentinel/

 

Yep. That's her. Dunno as her work is worth a lot, but it's fun pinning her down.

 

Her themes didn't change much, did they?

Debora

 

Seems like. A lot of folks who went through at era kind of got "stuck".

 

That's very true. She also seems to have disappeared after 1975. Anywho, found another example of her work. Can't remember where. Perhaps it's the work she has in a small regional museum in Massachusetts.

Debora