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Mormon art comprises all visual art created to depict the principles and teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), as well as art deriving from the inspiration of an artist's LDS religious views. Mormon art includes painting, sculpture, quilt work, photography, graphic art, and other mediums, and shares common ...
The first major art work that Christensen undertook while in Utah was a commission from Dimick B. Huntington to do a collection of paintings from the Bible and Book of Mormon, in collaboration with Dan Weggeland. [10] Christensen is best known for his Mormon Panorama, a series of 23 large paintings that depict the history of the church. [11]
Joseph Harry Anderson (August 11, 1906 – November 19, 1996) [2] was an American illustrator and a member of the Illustrator's Hall of Fame. A devout Seventh-day Adventist artist, he is best known for Christian-themed illustrations he painted for the Adventist church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Parson is a traditional realist artist and creates mostly Latter-day Saint art, but also works on other themes, such as landscapes. The LDS Church has commissioned Parson to paint over 240 works, [3] many of which are of Jesus Christ. One painting in particular, of the resurrected Christ exiting the tomb, is found in many the church's ...
John Hafen, muralist and professor at BYU, in 1890, 1 of 5 artists who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of the LDS Church in preparation for painting murals at the nearly completed Salt Lake Temple, 1856-1910 [16] [23] Ben Hammond, sculptor and painter for his work in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and United States Capitol, born 1977 [10 ...
[11]: 12 Though among her most noted works, Teichert did not paint the Book of Mormon murals under specific commission, but intended them for display at a "temple of art." She corresponded with high LDS Church officials such as J. Reuben Clark regarding her hopes dreamed this museum and school of art would someday be built in Salt Lake City.
In the 1950s there was a resistance from LDS Church leadership to having artistic portrayals of Jesus. For example, when Arnold Friberg created his series of Book of Mormon paintings, his initial portrayal of Christ visiting the Americas was rejected by LDS Church leadership. Friberg's final portrayal shows Christ at a distance, descending far ...
Avard Fairbanks was a son of John B. Fairbanks, an artist who also had studied in Paris art academies [40] and was briefly an art professor at Brigham Young Academy. [41] His mother, Lilly Annetta Huish, died on May 12, 1898, about a year after he was born as a result of an injury related to a fall she had while she was carrying the fourteen ...