Book of Mormon Art

Moroni mourns the death of his father, Mormon
by Walter Rane

This school year the Mesa East Stake Adult Religion Class has been studying the Book of Mormon. Today we studied about Mormon and his son Moroni. It is a sad, sad story of two great righteous men who watch their people become annihilated. Mormon dies and Moroni is left alone and lives on as a hunted man for 36 more years. It was a very emotional class today and one of the class members let us know that the above image can currently be viewed in Mesa. To read more about Mormon and Moroni please visit teacher Jenny Denton's class blog here.

This man, Walter Rane, painted the above image along with many other images from the Book of Mormon. Those images are currently on display in the Visitor Center of the Mesa Arizona Temple. I stopped in today and they are beautiful and masterful. Take time to go see them sometime during April.

My grand daughters would like to know that Walter Rane has also worked for Pleasant Company and did the artwork for the Kit doll books.