File:Richard Walker, Epiphany, 1942, Oil on board, 70 x 97 cm.jpeg

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Richard Walker, Epiphany, 1942, Oil on board, 70 x 97 cm, Collection of National Gallery Singapore.

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Description
Richard Walker, Epiphany, 1942, Oil on board, 70 x 97 cm, Collection of National Gallery Singapore.

Walker's most important work in Singapore is Epiphany created in Changi during the war. The painting, a study for a mural, was placed behind an improvised altar for holy communion services in the prison. [...] Epiphany, or the thirteenth day of Christmas, celebrates the revelation of Christ to the Magi. Painted in an allegorical style, Epiphany portrays the Virgin Mary as an Asian woman to symbolise the universal truth of Christianity.

-- Channels & Confluences: A History of Singapore Art (1996), ch. 9.

Extracted from http://www.postcolonialweb.org/singapore/arts/painters/walker/4.html