Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist(s) unknown
Medium Wood
Origin Polish
Creation
Date
1945
Size 32.5 X 18.5
Donor Margaret Sanger Slee
Acquisition
Date
1957
   
Image Source STP
   

 

Comments

This painting was made on antique wood. Margaret Sanger Slee, the founder of the national Planned Parenthood organization, lived in Tucson where her two physician sons practiced. She purchased these paintings from the Bloomsburg Group in London. [source: tour notes]

Also, see Madonna, another painting given to the Church by Margaret Sanger Slee.