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Mother Teresa - A Study
Gouache and Pencil
Tim Langenderfer, USA

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When Ramesh Malhotra spread the word that he was interested in artists to paint Mother Teresa, many of them asked how he would like them to depict her. Ramesh told each of them that he wanted Mother Teresa through their eyes. How did each of them see her? What struck each about her that he/she wanted to express? Tim decided to give Ramesh some samples of different expressions of Mother and he created a study. 

When he took the study to Ramesh and asked which he preferred, Ramesh thanked him and said he would frame this and display it, and that Tim should go back and paint her the way Tim sees her. Tim protested at the thought of his study being framed and displayed, but Ramesh won out, and both this study and Tim's finished painting are a part of the collection.


​Further information on Mother Teresa:

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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu - (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian, Roman Catholic nun, and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland, and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programs, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."

Teresa received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonized on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.
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A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She was praised and criticized on various counts, such as for her views on abortion and contraception, and was criticized for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorized biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books. On 6 September 2017, Teresa and St. Francis Xavier were named co-patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta.
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