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Commissioned by: Citizens Committee for the Army and NavyMedium: oil on wood with gilded gessoExecuted by: Hildreth MeièreRelocated to: Church of the Holy Family
Hildreth Meière painted Triptych 18 in December, 1942. The triptych depicts Christ with Arms Outstretched and the inscription: COME UNTO ME ALL YE WHO LABOUR AND ARE HEAVILY BURDENED AND I WILL REFRESH YOU.1
On August 16, 1949, the triptych was sent to the American Services Division Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City. Twenty years later, April 23, 1969, it was given to the Church of the Holy Family, also in Manhattan.2 Today only the center section of the triptych remains. It hangs in the sacristy.
See “Triptych History,” Hildreth Meière Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
“Triptych History.”