My last Lenten art offerings before we enter Holy Week are four new crucifixes in an Art Deco Style from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, now on view in the image gallery of the Crosses and Crucifixes page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. One cast metal cross is the work of a French husband and wife team, Jacques and Suzanne Hartmann, who became famous for their religious art objects, after winning a 1934 competition for a statue of visionary Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, France. Two crucifixes were designed by Felix Jacques, a French or Belgian sculpture whose work displays both high Art Deco motifs and the eloganted styling of the Romanesque era. A fourth, free-standing crucifix in bronze in a medieval style bears the signature of Max Le Verrier, a sculptor whose elegant linework and geometrically-proportioned forms have come to epitomize the Art Deco style. (John Kohan)