My series on new American prints and printmakers in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection comes to an end this week with the addition to the Sacred Artists section of a profile of Barry Moser. One of the most prolific practioners of the art of wood engraving around today, the Massachusetts-based artist has illustrated and laid-out enough works of classic literature from The Odyssey to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to start his own Great Books library. Moser had long dreamed of creating the only Bible designed and illustrated by a single artist in the 20th century and realized the project on the eve of the new millennium with the printing of his Pennyroyal Caxton edition. He created his own typeface for the King James Version text and 320 wood engravings as illustrations. This is biblical art with a difference. The heroes in Moser's version of the Holy Scriptures have lived-in faces, often drawn from life. As the artist explains, "They smell of fish and sweat, not sanctity and saintliness." (John Kohan)