Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Cityscape (Mexico-Nighttime), undated." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Kathleen, Elizabeth, and John, 1995." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: ÒA Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,Ó reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Walking by the Seine, 2017." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: ÒA Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,Ó reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune A display box full of sketches, watercolors and brushes belonging to Henry Eyring. Eyring's extensive watercolor collection is on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: ÒA Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,Ó reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "The Bark Diana, 1998." A portion of Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection is on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Walking in the Alps (with Kathy), 2017." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Church History Museum conservator Scott Simkins secures a display box full of sketches, watercolors and brushes belonging to Henry Eyring. Eyring's extensive watercolor collection is on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Missionaries in Sofia, Bulgaria, undated." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "I can't believe the small detail," said Denzel Datwyler of Logan, touring Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection. "He's gotta have really good eyes." The collection is on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Bald Mountain, Sun Valley (Family Times), undated." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Missionaries in Paris, undated." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune An exhibit placard reads, "Full of reminiscences, memories, images and feelings, this exhibition hopes to communicate President Eyring's deep love and tender nostalgia for his family, his friends, and the important places that encompass their shared memories, and to encourage viewers to find, communicate, remember and share their own most powerful experiences of love, as well." A portion of Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection is on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Holland, (top), and English Village, (bottom)." Many countries depicted were travel memories while Eyring was on church assignment, while others are memories of his wife, Kathy, or the children. Eyring calls Holland a "sentimental" work, referring to his son John, who served a mission in the Netherlands. Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Kathleen and Elizabeth, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2006." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Fiji Transfer Day, 2016." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Disaster On The Way, undated." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Tracting in Japan, 2017." Henry Eyring's extensive watercolor collection, on display now through January 21, 2019 at the Church History Museum. The collection, titled: “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring,” reveals Eyring's memories with family, friends and trips. Eyring is second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
To Henry B. Eyring, art is not about public recognition of his skill but rather a reflection of his life and faith.
To that end, Eyring, second counselor in the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has water-colored his memories on postcard-size canvases as part of his daily journal.
Now, after decades as a Latter-day Saint leader — including a stint as president of Brigham Young University-Idaho and later as an apostle — he has produced more than 1,000 visual snapshots to go along with his written account.
(Courtesy photo | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
President Henry B. Eyring explains one of his watercolor paintings.
Without any formal training, he has sought a balance, the 85-year-old leader said, between “the things I know the Lord wants me to do and then some memories that I want to preserve.”
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More than 100 of the lanky Latter-day Saint official’s watercolor paintings, sketches and journals will go on display Nov. 9 at the Church History Museum, 45 N. West Temple, in downtown Salt Lake City in an exhibit titled “A Visual Journal: The Artwork of Henry B. Eyring.” It will run through Jan. 21.
“President Eyring’s watercolors are personal and often capture his specific memories, deep feelings, familiar places and loved ones — in a way that flattens time,” Laura Allred Hurtado, the museum’s global acquisitions art curator, said in a news release.
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