• Artist:  JAMES COLBERT REID (American, 1907 - 1989)
  • Title:   He has Risen - Christ Appearing Before Mary Magdalene
  • Medium:  1930 Original Woodcut done in a highly-stylized Art Deco iconography
  • Edition:  Limited Printing Edition of 1000 impressions
  • Size:  9 x 6 inches
  • Printer / Publisher:  Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. on Murray Hill, New York
  • Note:  Reid's woodcut illustrations of Christ introduced the idea of the graphic novel in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which would explode in the 20th and 21st centuries
Provenance:  Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
About the Artist:   Born in Philadelphia, James Reid completed a four-year course at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, where he studied illustration under Thornton Oakley, a disciple of the Brandywine School made famous by N. C. Wyeth. In 1930, Reid created seventy-eight stunning wood engravings for The Life of Christ in woodcuts, where he depicted the most important events in the life of Christ using a series of highly-stylized woodcut prints in the Art Deco Style.  This event was important as it introduced the idea of the graphic novel in the early 20th century.