--- Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Evan McNabb wrote: > > > The painting is from Harry Anderson (see credits on p229 > > of the picture on p224 in the John Taylor Manual). As > > far as I can tell from a biography of him [1], he was > > not a member of the church, but did do contract work for > > them: > > > > This was probably one of the paints he was contracted to > > make > > The original hung in the south visitor's center on Temple > Square in the temple viewing room in the middle of the > building with those huge windows. I remember because I > always wanted to take a photograph of that painting from > the outside with the temple from behind itself reflected > in the glass, but then they remodelled the building > during the missionary program rehaul in 2001-2 and the > whole first floor is now replete of missionary stuff > pass-along-card-ish-like. Darn.
The painting was commissioned by David O. McKay. Last time I saw the original, it was in the Mormon Battallion visitors center in San Diego. That was several years ago, though, so I'm not sure whether it's still there or not. ===== PGP Key ID: 071B173D Fingerprint: ED30 B048 6833 56B4 28C0 CE52 F12B 884A 071B 173D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
