Plate 2 - Bootshop Sunset Winter Artist_Scott Sumner Inspiration for my paintings often

Inspiration for my paintings often comes when I’m thinking back on the trials our family has endured

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the Son of the living God

I wanted to capture just such a moment between Joseph and Emma

can sometimes seem like a storm

Plate 2 - Bootshop Sunset Winter Artist_Scott Sumner Inspiration for my paintings oftenI had been carefully studying Thomas Kanes account of his visit to the abandoned city of Nauvoo in September 1846. His account is unlike any other. About 15,000 Latter day Saints had left their homes and shops behind and headed west just months earlier. Kane recorded:**** No one met me there. I looked, and saw no one. I could hear no one move; though the quiet everywhere was such that I heard the flies buzz, and the water ripples break against the