Departure

Date1949-50

Label TextIn what may be another of Kenney’s ruminations on the end of the world, he has visualized the New Testament text of St Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians that prophesies “the rapture”, and offers hope to believers in the face of God’s impending judgments upon the earth: "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)

Object number2009.52.49

ProvenanceLamory Laumesiter, San Francisco and Mexico City, Mexico; Marshall and Helen Hatch, Seattle

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Exhibition HistoryBellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, "Regional Art", April 4 - May 9, 1983 La Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, "Leo Kenney Retropsective: Celebrating the Mysteries", June 2 - October 1, 2000

Credit LineGift of the Marshall and Helen Hatch Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Dimensions34 1/2 x 23 in. (87.6 x 58.4 cm)

MediumGouache on construction paper