10 works you should know
according to Heather Belnap,
Professor of art history, Brigham Young University
originally published June 2020
Heather Belnap is Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies and the newly-appointed Global Women's Studies Coordinator at Brigham Young University. She has presented and published widely in feminist art history, and particularly on women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art and society. Recently, she has turned her attention to the fields of Utah and Mormon studies.
Images included below are in the public domain or are used with permission.
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
Cyrus E. Dallin (American, 1861-1944)
The Angel Moroni (1891)
copper, covered in gold, 12 feet, 8 inches in height
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
3
Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (American, 1897-1987)
Tragedy at Winter Quarters, Nebraska (1936)
bronze
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Winter Quarters Historical Site
4
Mabel Pearl Frazer (American, 1887-1981)
Christ Among the Nephites (1954)
oil on canvas, 77x 161 inches
Springville Museum of Art, Gift from the Pioneer Craft House, Salt Lake City
5
Megan Knobloch Geilman (American, born 1986)
A Composition on Faith (Jane) (2016)
mixed media installation
Used with permission of the artist
6
John Hafen (American, 1856-1910)
The Garden of Eden (1893)
painted mural
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake Temple
7
Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)
Three Mormon Towns (1953-1954)
Life magazine photo essay, 14 x 10 inches, 112 pp.
Commercial publication
8
Trevor Southey (American, born Zimbabwe, 1940-2015)
Prodigal (1974)
oil on panel, 93.6 x 117 inches, triptych
9
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 Temple
10
Page Turner (American, born 1981)
Daughters of Zion Turning the Keys (2019)
hand stitched assemblage sculpture, 24 x 24 x 24 inches
Used with permission of the artist
