Eric Enstrom is famous for his 1918 photograph of Charles Wilden in Bovey

Bovey, Minnesota

Bovey is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of Minnesota's Iron Range. The population was 804 at the 2010 census.U.S...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. The photo is now known as Grace

Grace (photograph)

Grace is a 1918 photograph by Eric Enstrom. It depicts an elderly man, Charles Wilden, with hands folded, saying a prayer over a table with a simple meal. It was created in Bovey, Minnesota. In 2002, an act of the Minnesota State Legislature established it as the state photograph...

and depicts Wilden saying a prayer over a simple meal. In 2002, "Grace" was designated the state photograph of Minnesota.

Eric Enström was born in Mora parrish in Sweden in 1875 and died 1968 in Coleraine, Itasca County, MN, USA

External links

• GRACE by Enstrom - Website for Photograph