ADVENT CALENDAR 2024

December 16

SPANISH NATIVITY   

Belenes Puig S.L.
Barcelona, Spain
Clay, fabric, metal
2014

Philadelphia artist Frank Snyder designed this Christmas card, featuring a haloed and swaddled Christ Child with outstretched arms. The card was sent by Snyder and his wife, Ann, to Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn (date unknown). Snyder worked as a painter and muralist at Glencairn from 1937 to 1940, and continued working for the Pitcairns on freelance projects into the early 1950s. His work at Glencairn included a large Adoration of the Shepherds painting on canvas, a mural in Michael Pitcairn’s bedroom, and several painted plexiglass lampshades.

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