Flash forward 29 years and the Hansons’ charitable effort has grown tremendously. Praying Hands occupies 40 acres south of Parker with a second campus set to expand in 2017, Shirley said.

What source image might they have been modeled after? Our vote goes to this drawing of praying hands by the German artist Albrecht Durer, dating from about 1500: Praying hands by the German ...

Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s ...