In my continuing series on American graphic artists, the spotlight falls this week on German-American Printmaker Fritz Eichenberg, an accomplished wood engraver who illustrated a library of the world's greatest literature. Eichenberg had a special eye for the rich levels of meaning in the works of the 19th century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, creating this haunting image (left) in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection for The Possessed, a tale of nihilistic revolutionaries who wreak havoc in a provincial Russian town. Dostoyevsky predicted the healing of his homeland would only come about when godless philosophies from abroad were exorcised from the Russian soul, just as the legion of demons Christ cast out of the possessed man of Gadarene in Luke 8:26-39 entered a herd of swine and plunged into the sea. Eichenberg shows the destruction of the crazed pigs and the restored man at the foot of Christ with the domes of Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral in the background. This new wood engraving can be viewed on the Fritz Eichenberg profile page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)