Abstract
The fifteen panels painted by Abbey in the 1890s for the Boston Public Library were instrumental in increasing the popularity in America of both the Grail story and the figure of Sir Galahad. Abbey's pictorial narrative represented a new version of the Grail quest. In showing Galahad leaving his wife after their wedding, Abbey — like Tennyson in his influential 'Sir Galahad' — emphasized purity as the sine qua non of the successful quester.
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