Artist: Frank Jeck
موزه: Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, United States)
تکنیک: Wood
Frank Jeck (1884-1965), a woodcarver who emigrated from Hungary in 1903 and made his home in Philadelphia, worked for Raymond Pitcairn in the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s. Around the year 1926, he was directed by Pitcairn to carve a Bible cabinet from cherry wood to be used in Glencairn’s chapel. (Construction had not yet begun on his castle-like home, but the design process was already underway.) Interestingly, Pitcairn himself never actually used the cabinet at Glencairn; upon its completion he decided to loan it to Bryn Athyn Cathedral for use in the council chamber, a space designed to hold meetings of the clergy. It was not placed in the Glencairn chapel, the space for which it was originally planned, until 2006.The biblical imagery carved on the cabinet is repeated elsewhere in the chapel in other materials, making it clear that it was designed to be an integral part of the space. The doors of the cabinet feature images of the angels mentioned in Genesis (3:24), who stood guard with flaming swords at the entrance to the garden of Eden; these angels were also carved on stone capitals at the entrance to the chapel. The two small, wood-carved capitals on either side of the cabinet doors depict the four “living creatures” around the throne of God in heaven (Book of Revelation 4:7). These are repeated elsewhere in the chapel in stone and glass mosaic. The top of the cabinet includes carved towers reminiscent of Glencairn’s main tower. Cherry is a hardwood and difficult to carve; Jeck’s skill is evident in the small, finely carved details that adorn every inch of this Bible cabinet. (See External Link.)Sources:- Kirsten and Ed Gyllenhaal, “A Woodcarver’s Legacy: The Work of Frank Jeck (Part One),” _Glencairn Museum News_, Number 8, 2019.
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