10 works you should know

according to Laura Allred Hurtado,
executive director, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art 

originally published June 2020


Laura Allred Hurtado is the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. As a director, curator, and writer, her practice explores issues of gender, belief, identity, and the local.

Images included below are used with permission from the artists.


1

Carl Christian Anton Christensen (American, born Denmark, 1831-1912)

Untitled (Huntington/Lamanite Panorama) (c. 1871-1875)

11-panel panorama, 18 inches x 22 feet

Church History Museum


2

Hildebrando de Melo (Angolan, born 1979)

Corpo e Alma (Body and Soul) (series) (2005)

collage, graffiti, paint on paper

Private collections


3

Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984) and Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)

Three Mormon Towns (1953-1954)
Life magazine photo essay, 14 x 10 inches, 112 pp.
Commercial publication


4

Angela Ellsworth (American, born 1964)

Seer Bonnet, 2010
Corsage pins, fabric, plastic foam, 46 5/8 x 12 7/8 x 15 ¾ inches
Utah Museum of Fine Arts


5

J. Kirk Richards (American, born 1976)

Cristo (series) (2014)
161 paintings
oil and acrylic on panel, dimensions variable, installation dimensions 20 feet by 40 feet
Church History Museum


6

Amy Jorgensen (American)

Well Behaved Women (2014)
two channel HD video, duration: 5:00 minutes
Collection of the artist


7

Ultra Violet (Isabelle Collin Dufresne) (American, born France 1934-2014)

Baroque Acrylic Quantum Mirrored Self Portrait (2012)
acrylic, mirror glass, mirrored letters, 25 x 25 inches
Church History Museum


8

Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert (American, 1888-1976)

Madonna of 1847 (Covered Wagon Pioneers) (1936)
oil on canvas, 72 x 132 inches
Church History Museum


9

Joseph Paul Vorst (American, born Germany 1987-1947)

Beweinung Chrisit (Lamentation of Christ) (1922)
linoleum cut, 13.58 x 10.63 inches
Private collection 


10

 La Monte Young (American, born 1935)

Compositions 1961 (1963)
artists book, 66 pp. stapled blue wraps, 3.5 x 3.5 inches
Church History Museum