Last week, American Graphic Artist Ruth Starr Rose gave us a magisterical print from 1942 of the hosts of heaven proclaiming the Word of the Lord to the end of the universe. This week' featured artwork on the theme of angels from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, made six years later by Philadelphia-based Printmaker Benton Spruance, conveys a very different mood. In the intervening years, the Nuclear Age had begun, and in this ominously-titled lithograph, Havoc in Heaven, we see a trio of divine messengers rearing back in horror as a mushroom cloud rises from the planet earth. Spruance is known as the lithographer's lithographer for his lifelong fascination with this printing process using stone slabs. He was also fascinated with images of angels. In four other lithographs of the heavenly hosts in the gallery of the Benton Spruance profile page in the Sacred Artists section, you will find images of Jacob wrestling with an angel, an angel welcoming the myrhh-bearers to the empty tomb on Easter morning, two dancing angels, and Tobias journeying with the Angel Raphael in the Apochrypha narrative. (John Kohan)