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"The Nativity" by Lauren Ford 1939 framed reproduction - $20 (Salem)
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Artist: Lauren Ford (American, 1891-1973)
Medium: Print: Collotype
Year Issued: 1939
Dimensions: Print: 9" x 7.5" With frame and matting: 15" x 13.5"
Paper: Wove, medium weight
Color: black & white
Lauren Ford was a painter, printmaker, and writer/illustrator of children's books. Born in 1891 in New York City, she studied at the Art Students League and the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Ford was a regular exhibitor at Ferargil Galleries in New York after 1928 and in the 1930s at the Carnegie International Exhibitions in Pittsburgh. Her paintings were regularly used for Christmas cards.
Ford's artwork has been presented in such distinguished galleries as the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Ford's story was captured by Clare Boothe Luce who wrote the book for the movie "Come to the Stable" co-starring Celeste Holm, Loretta Young and Elsa Lanchester playing the role of Lauren. Celeste Holm received an Academy Award nomination for her role, and the movie is still available today.
In its Christmas issue of 1944, Life Magazine featured a portfolio of Lauren Ford's religious paintings and said the following of her art: "Once in every generation of painters ever since the first story of Christ was told in pictures, one artist has emerged who can tell the ancient story better than any other contemporary. Today, in the United States, Lauren Ford is such a painter."