A rather good LDS painter ... Minerva Teichert

[_Morley]

Love this thread. Thanks.

[_Chap]

Love this thread. Thanks.

It is a pleasure to have been able to start a thread that says something positive in connection with LDS culture and the Book of Mormon.

I am glad too that some posters have been able to express judgements that were somewhere in between the two extremes of 'it's awesome'/'it sucks'. Maybe I need to start doing the same about some aspects of LDS thought and religious expression?

Who would posters suggest as a potential Minerva Teichert of LDS scholarly writing who might begin to thaw my frost-bound heart?

[_zeezrom]

Fawn McKay Brodie
Eliza Roxcy Snow

[_Runtu]

Love these. Can't figure out why anyone would say they suck. Oh, well.

[_Quasimodo]

To me, these last three are much better! Very nice!

[_zeezrom]

Another aspect of M T that I like is how easy it is to recognize her work. She has a consistent style and this style communicates some nice things.

[_Blixa]

Who would posters suggest as a potential Minerva Teichert of LDS scholarly writing who might begin to thaw my frost-bound heart?

The incomparable Juanita Brooks.

[_Runtu]

The incomparable Juanita Brooks.

I kinda choked a little when zee mentioned Sister Snow, who was pretty much the female equivalent of Orson Whitney.

[_Quasimodo]

Another aspect of M T that I like is how easy it is to recognize her work. She has a consistent style and this style communicates some nice things.

She does have a unique style, which I like very much.

You forced me, Z, to Google her and I discovered that she lived in Cokeville, Wyoming. I knew a few people from there (the Peterson family) and Googling a little more found that Lyman Dayton had done a documentary about her. I did some work with Lyman many years ago. Small world.

[_zeezrom]

I kinda choked a little when zee mentioned Sister Snow, who was pretty much the female equivalent of Orson Whitney.

nevertheless and notwithstanding your choking, she has brought Mormons closer to Heavenly Mother than any other prophet. I'm biased, I suppose.