Revival Meeting

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Benny Andrews
American, born 1930

Revival Meeting, from “The Revival” series, 1994
Oil and collage on canvas

Purchase with funds from Alfred Austell Thornton in memory
of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr.,
and Sarah Miller Venable and William Hoyt Venable, 1995.51

In this work Benny Andrews depicts childhood
Memories of revival services held in the Plainview
Baptist Church near Madison, Georgia. Encouraged by
the congregation’s singing and by a persuasive minis-
ter, people on the “mourner’s bench” pray for salvation