Historic Cody Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
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General information | |
Type | Chapel and museum |
Location | Cody, Wyoming |
Address | 1719 Wyoming Avenue |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 44°31′50″N 109°03′14″W / 44.5305°N 109.0540°W |
Client | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
The Historic Cody Mural Chapel is a chapel and museum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cody, Wyoming. [1] The chapel was dedicated in 1949 by Henry D. Moyle and was rededicated in 1972 by Hugh B. Brown. [1]
The idea for the chapel and mural came from Lloyd Taggart and Glenn E. Nielson who were in the local church leadership. [2] Edward Grigware, a local resident, was asked to paint the mural and accepted because he had not painted a religious subject before. [2] Grigware spent a year researching the church before drawing a preliminary sketch. [2] The center opened as an official visitors center in May 1982 with an exhibit explaining how members of the church negotiated water rights with Buffalo Bill. [3]
The mural was painted on the rotunda of the chapel's foyer by Edward T. Grigware and unveiled in 1951. [4] [5] The mural depicts scenes from church history and includes representations of the first eight presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [2] As you leave the room a group of faces representing the Mormon pioneers is depicted above the words, "Lest We Forget." [2]
The rotunda was constructed by mounting circular boards at 16-inch (410 mm) intervals until they reached the center of the ceiling. [5] The top board is suspended to from beams in the roof. [5] The canvas was then hung on the plaster and painted from miniatures. [5] The canvas and paints were imported from outside the United States. [5]
Fred Bond from Los Angeles reproduced the mural for The Cody Mural: A Pictorial History of Mormonism. [5] Several overlapping photos were taken from a platform and turned into negatives. [5] The negatives were then made into transparencies that were custom colored and turned into lithographic plates to a scale of one inch (25 mm) in to two feet (610 mm). [5]
Historic Cody Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
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General information | |
Type | Chapel and museum |
Location | Cody, Wyoming |
Address | 1719 Wyoming Avenue |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 44°31′50″N 109°03′14″W / 44.5305°N 109.0540°W |
Client | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
The Historic Cody Mural Chapel is a chapel and museum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cody, Wyoming. [1] The chapel was dedicated in 1949 by Henry D. Moyle and was rededicated in 1972 by Hugh B. Brown. [1]
The idea for the chapel and mural came from Lloyd Taggart and Glenn E. Nielson who were in the local church leadership. [2] Edward Grigware, a local resident, was asked to paint the mural and accepted because he had not painted a religious subject before. [2] Grigware spent a year researching the church before drawing a preliminary sketch. [2] The center opened as an official visitors center in May 1982 with an exhibit explaining how members of the church negotiated water rights with Buffalo Bill. [3]
The mural was painted on the rotunda of the chapel's foyer by Edward T. Grigware and unveiled in 1951. [4] [5] The mural depicts scenes from church history and includes representations of the first eight presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [2] As you leave the room a group of faces representing the Mormon pioneers is depicted above the words, "Lest We Forget." [2]
The rotunda was constructed by mounting circular boards at 16-inch (410 mm) intervals until they reached the center of the ceiling. [5] The top board is suspended to from beams in the roof. [5] The canvas was then hung on the plaster and painted from miniatures. [5] The canvas and paints were imported from outside the United States. [5]
Fred Bond from Los Angeles reproduced the mural for The Cody Mural: A Pictorial History of Mormonism. [5] Several overlapping photos were taken from a platform and turned into negatives. [5] The negatives were then made into transparencies that were custom colored and turned into lithographic plates to a scale of one inch (25 mm) in to two feet (610 mm). [5]