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Flora Davis Fisher, of Provo, studied art at Brigham Young University, particularly focusing on watercolor and oil painting. Fisher became known for her color-filled landscapes and flower paintings, such as Bouquet. · Learn more about this work

Mari Lyons, a contemporary artist whose career spanned over 40 years, often used vibrant colors to bring her paintings to life. As her work captured the active beauty of the world around us, she invites the viewer to appreciate the joy that blooms from life’s quiet and ordinary routines. · Learn more about this work

In J. Alden Weir’s An Autumn Stroll, a woman and child share a quiet moment in the cool autumn light. As they pause for a shared moment under a tree, they gaze outward—their calm,contemplative expressions detailing their experience and allowing viewers to feel welcome in theirspace. Based on Weir’s own daughter Dorothy and her stepmother, the artist uses this painting toprovide viewers a glimpse into the relationship between this mother and child, capturing both familiarity and tenderness. As they stand together, connected, they represent the relationships that many may have with their own parents or loved ones. · Learn more about this work

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Dixon loved and respected the indigenous people who often appeared in his paintings. He was inspired by their physical resilience as well as by the spiritual knowledge he believed that they drew from their relationship with the land. At times, they invited him to witness some of their sacred ceremonies, and he believed his role as an artist put him in a unique position to explore these sacred rites. Dixon allowed his imagination to edit and augment the things he saw when visiting with the Hopi and Navajo peoples and acknowledged that others might not see this world as he was presenting it. · Learn more about this work

This painting’s enigmatic title is a perfect fit for its intriguing subject, where an unknown woman dressed in black sits with her hands in her lap, her eyes seemingly focused on nothing. What is she waiting for? Perhaps she waits for a family member or friend to pay her a visit. Given the woman’s attire and the painting’s somber tone, whether knowingly or not, she also seems to be waiting for death. We will likely never know what Rose Hartwell intended this painting to mean, so we too are left waiting to know this woman’s story. · Learn more about this work

Painted while Moser was studying art in Paris, this painting lacks the bold color and loose brushwork that came to dominate the artist’s style when he returned to Utah. In Paris, he was surrounded not only by academic tradition, but by modern art’s many new aesthetic possibilities. Judging from his mature style, he was observing much during this time, even though his own output remained relatively conservative. This painting, and others of the time, show the influence of the Barbizon School of landscape painting, an influential nineteenth-century movement that emphasized painting outdoors. · Learn more about this work

Thalmann evokes the notion of communion in a series of prints of worshippers within dramatic cathedral interiors. His strong lines and contrast of deep pools of shadow with bold spaces of radiant light conveys the reverence and anticipatory sublime of a worship experience. The cathedral, with its Gothic-style archways, and hooded bowed forms moving silently, exude a timeless quality of devotion, where man—insignificant compared to the vast reaches of the cathedral space—is brought to feel the immensity of the divine. · Learn more about this work

Rose Hartwell’s painting of a pawn shop might bring to mind thrifting, vintage objects, and searching for that special something. Yet pawn shops also attest to acts of financial desperation. This depiction of a pawn shop corner window includes valuables like a traditional Chinese cash coin, cowrie and spiral seashells, a Grecian-style vase, and gold and silver jewelry intermingled with open pocket watches. · Learn more about this work