The exhibit also displays Joseph F. Smith’s Tissot Bible, which being published in 1890-something, foud its way to Utah within a few short years.

The museum is also hosting an exhibit with many of Carl Bloch’s famous New Testament paintings. I walked through last night and found it very enjoyable.. then again, I enjoy that sort of thing.

Farny’s painting, like the other black-and-white ones shown here, doesn’t have anything to do with the Tissot series (“Mountain Trail” was used to illustrate a pioneer story, if I recall correctly). I just included a few black-and-white illustrations from church magazines published during the same year so that you would, by contrast, appreciate how spectacular the color must have seemed to readers accustomed to only black-and-white.

But where did the Henry Farny (who added the “e”?) fit in? Farny was a prolific painter of Western Americana, especially native Americans, who lived in Ohio but regularly traveled west to gather material. He lived in Taos for a short time but did most of his studio work in Ohio. An Indian or Indians on a canyonside trail was a recurring theme. I saw some of his work in a gallery in Santa Fe a few years ago.

Thanks much.