10 works you should know

according to Ashlee Whitaker Evans, former Head Curator at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.

originally published June 2020

Ashlee Whitaker Evans is the former Head Curator and the Roy & Carol Christensen Curator of Religious Art at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Her research interests span religious art and visual culture, as well as western regional American art. Her most recent exhibitions are Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Contemporary Latter-day Saint Art and Work and Wonder: 200 Years of Latter-day Saint Art.

Images included below are used with permission from the artists.

1

64 artists (American, born in England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States)

Fourteenth Ward Album Quilt, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857
textile, 125 x 99 inches
Private collections

2

Milo Baughman (American, 1923-2003)

Cocktail Table, Model 500 (ca. 1950)
wood, glass, Masonite, aluminum, stainless steel, metal insert, 13.5 x 47.5 x 30 inches
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

3

Cardston Alberta Temple (1912, dedicated 1923)

Hyrum Pope (American, born Germany, 1880-1939) and Harold Burton (American, 1887-1969), architects
81,700 square feet, floor area
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Cardston, Alberta

4

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

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

5

Royal Nebeker (American, 1945-2014)

Sun, Moon, and Stars: When We Awaken (2013)
oil and collage on canvas, 142 x 104 inches
Private collection

6

Bruce Smith (American, born 1936)

Bait (series)
oil on canvas, dimensions variable
multiple collections

7

Trevor Southey (American, born Zimbabwe, 1940-2015)

Gethsemane (1977)
oil on canvas, 42 x 144 inches
Brigham Young University Museum of Art

8

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

9

 Tiffany and Company (American, founded 1837)

First Vision (1892)
leaded stained glass, 145 x 54 inches
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake Temple

10

Ultra Violet (Isabelle Dufresne) (American, born France, 1935-2014)
Self Portrait (c. 2012)
acrylic and glass, 25 x 25 inches
Private collection