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Brigham Young
Artist: Kraig Varner
Date: 1993
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: unspecified
In 1851, U.S. President Millard Fillmore appointed Brigham Young as the first governor of the Utah Territory. This monumental bronze statue of Brigham Young was sculpted by Utah artist Kraig Varner. Varner chose a young, striding likeness of the civic leader, church president, and regional colonizer. In the larger-than-life portrait, Varner captures the personality of the man historians often refer to as the "American Moses." |