Visitors will notice that a beautiful portrait of Dean Joe Reynolds now hangs in Reynolds Hall. Carol and Andy Vickery commissioned the painting from David Terry (who was also the author of the portrait of Pittman McGehee in the lobby of the McGehee Building). If the painting looks as though it has always been there, it’s because Kelly Gale Amen’s custom-designed frame blends perfectly with the detailing of the walls in the room. The Dean is the very embodiment of Word and Sacrament. Wearing the white chasuble for celebrating Communion, he stands by the Pulpit. Over his shoulder we see in the chancel two the communion table on the right, the baptismal font on the left. An image that is at once distinguished and personal, Terry’s fine painting stands in the tradition of grand portraiture going back to Titian and Van Dyck and coming down to John Singer Sargent in the last century.
