American Printmaker Benton Spruance created this week's new image of the Resurrection from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection. His color lithograph, Very Early in the Morning, dating from 1955, gives a contemporary spin to the traditional Eastern Orthodox iconographic theme of the Holy Myrrhbearers, who came early on Easter morning to anoint the body of Christ and encountered an angel by the empty tomb, as recorded in Mark 16:1-18. In Spruance's variation on the scene, the three saintly women have come empty-handed and look on in shock, awe, and wonder at the petite angel, who is precariously balanced on the broken lid of a stone sarcophagus, littered with instruments of Christ's Passion like his Crown of Thorns, shroud, and the spear that pierced his side. In the background, we can just make out the three crosses on Golgotha. The soldiers guarding the tomb have run away, leaving behind, in an incongruous modern touch, a lunch box, thermos, coffee cups, and playing cards. This new image of Easter morning can be found on the Benton Spruance biosketch page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)