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Woodblock Print - The Colossal Conceit of Missionaries

Title: Woodblock Print - The Colossal Conceit of Missionaries
Identifier: BMK_004
Description: The image shows a massive figure drawn in the style of Chinese temple statues. He is wielding a sword and presiding over what appears to be a court. In a much smaller scale, a man with a doctor's bag holds the page of a book open on the desk of the court. The symbolic meaning is up for interpretation.
Commentary: Robert Kilborn notes that this was among the last five designs that Beatrice drew before her tragic death in the airplane crash in Hankow, 1947-01-28.
Creator: Beatrice McDowell Kitchen
Date Created: 1946
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Original Format: Woodblock print
Transciption: The Colossal Conceit of Missionaries: Leslie G. Kilborn
Source: Donald Willmott
Provenance: Self-published pdf compiled by Robert Kilborn and distributed to missionaries and mish kids at the Canadian School in West China annual reunion.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-04-03
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Published In: Robert Kilborn, ed. n/d. Beatrice Kitchen: A Collection of Her Wood Block Prints and Other Prints which She Created for the Canadian Mission Press, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.