Good Lord Give Me Peace

c. 1940

Joseph Paul Vorst

Associated Names
Joseph Paul Vorst

Artist, American, born Germany, 1897 - 1947

The image shows an elderly man in a kneeling position next to a bed. He is fully depicted as he kneels with his hands clasped together in front of his face. The man has an aged facial appearance with a prominent nose, closed eyes, high cheekbones, and short, curly hair. He has a mustache and a short beard. The man appears to be wearing a sheet wrapped around his waist. Beside him on the floor is a stool and a piece of paper or a newspaper with visible text saying "Yanks in Belgium." The room is simple, with a metal-framed bed under a tattered blanket. In the background, there is a window with a star hanging in it and a cat sitting on the window ledge with its back facing the room. The room has a bare wooden floor.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.94 × 21.59 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 32.86 × 25.88 cm (12 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.495


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Harco Gallery, Columbia, MO); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased May 21, 1994; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1949

  • "Memorial Exhibition", Latter Day Saints Church, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 11 - Nov. 24, 1949.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Vorst

Markings

stamped in black on verso: RK

Wikidata ID

Q76557052

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