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I was looking at his religious art and thought how strange that so much of it is new to me. Why doesn't LDS use his art very much?


Saint Eulalia


Saint Cecilia


Saint Joan


The Annunciation

By the way, I know why they don't use his work. I just think it's sad they don't.

Here are some more new ones (new for me) by John Singer Sargent (a personal fav of mine):


Frieze of Prophets


Israelites Oppressed


Study for Two Heads for Boston Mural "The Prophets"

Or, how about a contemporary of Joseph Smith - Rembrandt Peale?


The court of death - from the original painting, by Rembrandt Peale

"Old Age, bending under the infirmity of years, approaches Death. Having lived a Christian life, he is sustained by Faith, and meets the dread Monarch with extended arms and in cheerful resignation, exclaiming, "O death, where is thy sting! O grave, where is thy victory!" G.Q. Colton

Daniel Huntington (Joseph Smith contemporary)


Mercy's Dream

Sort of Masonic-like


Cin. O. : The Pettibone Mfg. Co., publishers, c1883 August 10
Print showing bust portrait of "Jonathan & David" in oval surrounded by religious and masonic scenes and symbols.


The iron worker and King Solomon / the original painted by Prof. C. Schussele, 1864 ; engraved by John Sartain, Phila.


Odd Fellowship illustrated


An illustrated sheet music cover for a Unionist song, "God and Our Union," composed by Leopold Meignen with words by Louis Dela. The illustration features four maidens, each representing a section of the United States--North, South, East and West. The maidens stand around an altar and point to a scroll, the "Constitution of North America," which they unroll. Rising from the altar are two Corinthian columns supporting an arch, over which is draped a large American flag. Atop the arch sits an eagle. In the space between the columns appears a large, gleaming anchor, symbol of hope. The scene is surrounded by dark clouds through which an eye appears. The vigilant eye was a familiar Masonic symbol, and a device adopted by the Wide-Awake Clubs of 1860. (See "Free Speech, Free Soil, Free Men," no. 1860-14.) Here it probably refers to the song's assertion of divine watchfulness over the Union.

Best part of wife and my travel to Munich last year

right up your alley zee.

http://gogermany.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi= ... pinakothek

I'm too busy today to find it, zeez, but there are a few non-Mormon artists that were used in LDS publications (way) back in the day. If I get a moment, I'll try to track down some of this for you....

Thank you Rock and Blixa!

Vladimir Borovikovsky!


Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Tree of life:


Hand-colored engraving. Baltimore: printed for John Hagerty, 1791
Maryland Historical Society Library, Baltimore, Maryland (183)