Mark Schuler: Brigham Young

Artist: Mark Schuler
1951 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1982
Image Size: 12 by 15.25 inches
Overall Size: 17 by 20 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board

In July 1844, Brigham Young arrived in Boston to speak on behalf of Joseph Smith's campaign for the presidency of the United States. The speech was never heard, for Young there learned of Smith's murder two weeks earlier. Immediately, he returned to the experimental city of Nauvoo which the Mormons had established on the Mississippi River, and which Young had helped to create. There, he found the church and all of his beliefs in danger of dissolution. It was a turning point in his life. Young quickly asserted himself to pull the society back together, proving himself the strongest personality among the Mormons. He rallied the church in this time of crisis and gave it new direction. As President of the Church, Young led his people west to one of the most successful colonizing endeavors in the history of the United States. Having been expelled from Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, Mormon leaders determined that they could only find their "Promised Land" outside of the American social system. Gathering information on the unsettled West, Young finally decided on the Salt Lake Valley as a Mormon home and personally led a party of one hundred forty-eight to the new land. Eventually, he organized the emigration of seventy thousand.

This artwork was originally published on a Fleetwood® Commemorative Cover for the Proudest Americans of the Fifty States Collection featuring each of the ninety-three men and women who are honored in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. Each Cover was postmarked on the anniversary of his or her birth.

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