My final featured images this month of a miracle of Christ from the on-line Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection are a rare paring of a preliminary sketch and a final etching by American Artist Earl Stetson Crawford. A grandson of famed hat-maker, John B. Stetson, he studied art in Paris under the tutelage of Early Modernist James McNeill Whistler and returned to the U.S. to become a successful Gilded Age portrait painter, muralist, and illustrator. Crawford returned to Europe in the 1920s, where he remained until the outbreak of World War II. He was never drawn to any modernist movements, preferring to create graphic works in the style of Rembrandt and other great masters of the European print, as can be seen in this highly detailed drawing and etching of the woman who touched the hem of Christ's robe and was healed of "an issue of blood," a miracle recorded in all the Synoptic Gospels. Two other pairings of sketches and prints can be found on the Earl Stetson Crawford profile page in the Sacred Artists Section. (John Kohan)