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Artwork of the Week: Through the Port Hole

July 17, 2023
As one of the first artists from Utah to receive formal training abroad, James Taylor Harwood was no stranger to international travel, shuttling between the United States and France
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Artwork of the Week: Sketch With Interior View

July 10, 2023
Before the emergence of computer-assisted design/drafting (CAD), there was pencil on paper. This was Ella Peacock’s world.
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Artwork of the Week: Cadillac Town Car

July 03, 2023
As a professor of photography at the University of New Mexico, Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani created a remarkable body of work that drew on techniques of photography, collage, and research to examine the atomic history and radioactive life of the American Southwest
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Artwork of the Week: Iron Out

June 26, 2023
From the late 1970s through the 1990s, graphic designer McRay Magleby and copywriter Norm Darais created witty and visually engaging informational posters for Brigham Young University.
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Artwork of the Week: Plowing Valley of the Great Salt Lake

June 19, 2023
A flapping cloud of seagulls circles around a father and son as they till their Utah field. With the hope that accompanies a new planting season, the father pushes the plow deep into the earth while the son guides the horses.
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Artwork of the Week: Val Tait

June 12, 2023
Dixon captured the strong features of this Mormon rancher and farmer from Mount Carmel, Utah, during a summer of painting the area around Zion National Park.
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Artwork of the Week: Rhododendrons

June 05, 2023
This month we celebrate the birthday of artist Dorothy Weir Young.
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Artwork of the Week: Lesaka Waken

May 29, 2023
While the monumentality of Lesaka Waken feels impossibly vast, anchored to both land and the highest of stratospheres, it also connects to the optics of relatively small.
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Artwork of the Week: May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023
Jesus, whilst confronted with a murderous horde prepared to execute a woman “taken in the very act of adultery,” chose to not respond to the mob’s shouted confrontations and demands for capital punishment. Instead, the Lord remained thoughtful, somber, and ultimately articulate as he subtly and silently communicated to the venomous bystanders by inscribing His commentary/invocation in the sand.
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Artwork of the Week: May 15, 2023

May 15, 2023
First, consider the act of climbing a tree—a dauntless act for a big kid. So naturally, it is the eldest and tallest, a confident Mahonri has buccaneered his way above the groundlings.
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Artwork of the Week: May 8, 2023

May 08, 2023
Consider the gorgeous spring green, one such as you’ve never experienced in nature. The foreground is a verdigris pea-soup sprinkled with meadow blooms conforming to the color scheme of the other flowers.
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Artwork of the Week: May 1, 2023

May 01, 2023
As we approach the May-Day activities from the lower left, three young boys are full of vigor and exuberance.
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Artwork of the Week: April 24, 2023

April 24, 2023
This sculpture depicts an anonymous body suspended in the moment of resurrection. The burial rags clinging to the figure’s frame begin to slough off as the body rises from its pedestal.
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Artwork of the Week: April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023
“Symbolism can connect us to the divine,” artist Ron Richmond assures us. In his work Triplus, Number 3, Richmond presents many spiritual symbols.
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Artwork of the Week: April 10, 2023

April 10, 2023
Originally exhibited in the Logan Utah Temple, this scene depicts Christ as he appeared to Mary by the tomb.
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Artwork of the Week: March 27, 2023

March 27, 2023
This week’s art selection was chosen to celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Spring. Edward Redfield was one of the most prominent American Impressionists associated with an art colony located in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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Artwork of the Week: March 20, 2023

March 20, 2023
Dixon’s poetry reveals his complicated feelings about living in the city – he was a resident of San Francisco for most of his life, but his heart longed for grand vistas and open space.
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Artwork of the Week: March 13, 2023

March 13, 2023
Dagnan-Bouveret portrays the Virgin and Child resting quietly in a simple carpenter’s shop. The Infant’s divine glow penetrates Mary’s veil and emphasizes His divinity. Jesus’ placement, nestled against her chest, suggests the notion that Mary kept her sacred, maternal insights about His identity in her heart, private but profoundly felt because of their intimate kinship.
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