10 works you should know

according to artist J. Kirk Richards 

originally published June 2020

Joel Kirk Richards is a contemporary artist whose work engages with themes of antiquity, religion, spirituality, equality, and love. His work asks questions about modern application and implementation of religion as it relates to historical narratives and mythologies.

Images included below are used with permission from the artists.

1

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

Mormon Panorama (23 scenes; 22 extant) (c. 1870)
tempera paintings, 175 foot long scroll, separated posthumously into panels 6 x 10 feet
Brigham Young University Museum of Art

2

James C. Christensen (American, 1942-2017)

Quisquilia
oil, 24 x 48 inches

3

Mabel Pearl Frazer (American, 1887-1981)

Sunrise, North Rim Grand Canyon (1928)
oil on canvas, 33 x 57.75 inches
Springville Museum of Art, gift from the Madeleine, Dick, and Netties Waldis

4

Brian Kershisnik (American, born 1962)

Dormientes Musici (2001)
oil on canvas, 84 x 108 inches

5

Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (American, 1897-1987)

The Nursing Mother (Mother and Child) (1928)
marble, 36.5 x 23 x 18 inches
Springville Museum of Art

6

Gary Ernest Smith (American, born 1942)

Paintings of the American farmer (ongoing series)
media and dimensions variable

7

Franz M. Johansen (American, 1928-2018)

The Rod and the Veil (1975)
bronze, 85 x 99 inches
Church History Museum

8

Bruce Hixson Smith (American, born 1936)
Woman Taken in Adultery (1993)
lithograph

9

V. Douglas Snow (American, 1928-2009)

Conflict and Resolution (renamed Capital Reef) (1997)
oil on canvas, 19 x 15 feet
Utah State Public Art Collection

10

Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert (American, 1888-1976) 

World Room of the Manti Temple (1947) 
[assisted by Frank Stevens and Nancy Taylor Stevens]
oil on canvas murals treated with casein and beeswax, dimensions variable: North Wall (Columbus, Crusaders, Orient, Esau), 28 x 50 feet; South Wall (Pilgrims, Moses, Joseph, Abraham), 28 x 50 feet; East Wall (Tower of Babel), 25 x 28 feet; West Wall (Zion, North American Continent (25 x 28 feet)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Manti, Utah