ARTWORK OF THE WEEK
Artwork of the Week: Deborah and Ma Cat
Do you feel like we are intruding? This surrealist inspired painting sure doesn’t seem like it wants us to understand what exactly is going on.
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Artwork of the Week: Yellow Cat Belonging to a Thinking Woman
Hal Douglas Himes taught printmaking at BYU for several years. His work is often encoded with cryptic symbols that tease the viewer with intended meanings while subverting their attempts to arrive at any straightforward interpretation.
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Artwork of the Week: The Cat
These cats are beginning to get a bit creepy!
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Artwork of the Week: Anonymous Japanese Print
The cat depicted in this anonymous Japanese print has been causing its owner trouble—this is clearly not their first catch.
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Artwork of the Week: Two Cats and Three Buckets
In the spirit of Halloween, this month the MOA is celebrating one of nature’s most enigmatic creatures: cats!
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Artwork of the Week: The Blind Man at the Pool of Siloam
The Gospel of John contains 7 signs or miracles, and the healing of the blind man at the Pool of Siloam is the 6th.
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Artwork of the Week: Lazy Autumn
In 1939, Dixon and his wife built a home in Mt. Carmel, Utah. Here they admired the natural landscape of the area until his death in 1946. This quintessentially Utahn scene portrays Native Americans as part of the natural landscape.
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Artwork of the Week: Sunset, Hudson River
As we anticipate the transition from the blistering of summer heat to the crispness of fall, let us celebrate a painting in which the sun itself retreats into the autumn leaves.
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Artwork of the Week: Riding the Girder
This Labor Day, we celebrate Mahonri Young- a social realist and grandson of Latter-day Saint prophet Brigham Young. Young celebrated laborers throughout his entire career- both in his art and in his personal advocacy.
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Artwork of the Week: Self-Portrait
From the time she was a little girl, Minerva Teichert wanted to be an artist.
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Artwork of the Week: A Corner Window in a Pawn Shop
The smells of old paper, curtains, and metals envelop you as you peek into the neighborhood pawn shop.
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Artwork of the Week: Untitled (Train Crossing Great Salt Lake, Utah)
Happy World Photography Day! It is estimated that five billion photos are taken around the world every day.
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Artwork of the Week: Industry
Mahonri Young’s art journey began as a young boy modeling clay as a five-year-old, and led to him dropping out of school to pursue art (though he always loved reading).
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Artwork of the Week: Figure of Count Bruhl's Tailor
Behold the goat and its rider, the tailor to Count Heinrich von Brühl, in all their flashy glory and excess. Both goat and tailor convey an irrepressible, overly confident swagger.
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Artwork of the Week: Broward County, Florida
In this photograph, business cards stapled to a flat surface advertise a dizzying array of services, providing one view of the commercial and community offerings of Broward County, Florida, in 1989
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Artwork of the Week: Through the Port Hole
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
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
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
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
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
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
This month we celebrate the birthday of artist Dorothy Weir Young.
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Artwork of the Week: Lesaka Waken
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
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
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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