The Art of Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet — Art & Illustrations

The Prophet (1923)

Twelve original drawings reproduced from the first edition (Alfred A. Knopf, 1923). Click any plate for a larger view.

Plate I

The Coming of the Ship

Plate II

On Love

Plate III

On Marriage

Plate IV

On Children

Plate V

On Giving

Plate VI

On Crime and Punishment

Plate VII

On Self-Knowledge

Plate VIII

On Prayer

Plate IX

On Beauty

Plate X

On Death

Plate XI

The Farewell

Plate XII

The Farewell

Twenty Drawings (1919)

Gibran's first and only volume devoted exclusively to his paintings. Watercolours of weightless, ethereal human forms — exploring what the original introduction called "the human form as an image and personification of Beauty, an icon of Life, an emanation of the Eternal."
Read more at kahlilgibran.com

Toward the Infinite

The Blind

III

The Struggle

The Triangle

The Mountain

The Great Aloneness

VII

Uplifted

VIII

The Greater Self

Mother and Child

The Great Longing

Centaur and Child

XII

The Innermost

XIII

Veiled Face

XIV – XV

The Rock & The Waterfall

XVI

Flight

XVII – XVIII

The Burden & Crucified

XIX

Woman with Garment

Further Resources

Twenty Drawings — kahlilgibran.com
Full essay on the 1919 collection with all twenty watercolours
The Art of Kahlil Gibran — Simi Press
Gallery of 18 works spanning Gibran's career, with biographical context
The Blessed Mountain — Telfair Museums
Original Gibran artwork in the Telfair permanent collection
Illustrations by Kahlil Gibran — Wikimedia Commons
Public-domain scans including The Prophet and Sand and Foam
The Prophet — Project Gutenberg
Full text with higher-resolution illustration scans (669×950)

Prophet illustrations from the 1923 first edition (public domain). Thumbnails via Wikimedia Commons; full-size scans via Project Gutenberg. Twenty Drawings images via kahlilgibran.com.