BPL Murals

On Lincoln Kirstein, Patron Saint

At home in Boston he studied decorated books and bought volumes illustrated by Gustave Doré,

Aubrey Beardsley, and Arthur Rackham, of whose work the best collection was in the public library.

Lincoln also greatly admired the large allegorical murals there: Puvis de Chavannes’s The Muses of

Inspiration, Edwin Austin Abbey’s The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, and John Singer

Sargent’s Judaism  and Christianty.