Grace is a photo by Eric Enstrom. It depicts an old man with folded hands, saying a prayer on a table with simple food. In 2002, an action from Minnesota State Legislature established it as a state photo.
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The original photo was taken at Enstrom's photography studio in Bovey, Minnesota. Most sources point to 1918 as the year, although the daughter of Enstrom, Rhoda, born in 1917, admits to recalling when the photo was taken, which may have existed sometime around 1920. The man pictured in the photograph was Charles Wilden, who gained little life. as a traveling merchant and live in a sod house. While the picture conveys a sense of piety, the book seen in the photograph is actually a dictionary, not a Bible, and local stories about Wilden "focus more on drinking and not achieving much."
What happened to Wilden after the photo was unknown. In 1926, he was paid $ 5 by Enstrom in return for neglecting his rights to the photograph; he disappears afterwards. After the photo became popular, Enstrom tried to track down Wilden but to no avail. Many family members and local historians have also tried to determine what is Wilden but have not been able to find definitive evidence.
Enstrom first licensed the photograph to Augsburg Fortress in 1930. In the 1940s, his daughter, Rhoda Nyberg, colored the photo by hand. This version was featured in prints produced during the 1940s and became a wider and popular photo version.
Enstrom earned a modest amount of the photograph for the rest of his life until his death in 1968. Nyberg died in 2012.
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Legacy
In 2014, Picturing Grace's first stage drama is premiered, featuring dramatized storytelling behind photographs, photographers, and subjects. The drama airs in Itasca County, the same region where the photo was taken.
References
External links
- Grace (Minnesota country photo) in MNopedia, Minnesota Encyclopedia
- Grace by Enstrom - a website for photos
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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