Mural No. GU-43752 (All Rights Reserved)

Media - 1997.124.6 - SAAM-1997.124.6_1 - 13064
Copied William Alvin Blayney, Mural No. GU-43752 (All Rights Reserved), 1969, oil, pen, and pencil on masonite, 37 1⁄4 x 24 3⁄4 in. (94.6 x 62.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.6

Artwork Details

Title
Mural No. GU-43752 (All Rights Reserved)
Artist
Date
1969
Location
Dimensions
37 1⁄4 x 24 3⁄4 in. (94.6 x 62.9 cm.)
Markings
center left in black oil: REV. BLAYNEY R (in a circle) a (in a circle) C (copyright symbol) 69/71 upper right in black oil: 4-14-1969
Credit Line
Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil, pen, and pencil on masonite
Classifications
Keywords
  • Figure group
  • Landscape
  • Fantasy — dragon
  • Religion — Christianity
  • Emblem — cross
  • Religion — angel
Object Number
1997.124.6
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1997.124.6

Artwork Description

This painting depicts events from the Revelation of Saint John the Divine, the last book of the New Testament that recounts his vision of the Apocalypse. William Alvin Blayney was a Pentecostal minister who filled his paintings with images from the Bible, as well as supernatural creatures from his own imagination (Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia, 1990). He created a unique language of symbols, numbers, and phrases that evokes the Pentecostal practice of “speaking in tongues.”