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Show Fig. 156 Gravestone display. Salt Lake City. Paul Reynolds. Fiberglass. 1978. All-seeing Eye. H: 110 cm. W: 52.5 cm. D: 8.75 cm. Beehive. H: 77.5 cm. W: 42.5 cm. D: 8.75 cm. Tools. H: 116.25 cm. W: 60 cm. D: 11.25 cm. Collection of the Utah Arts Council. These fiberglass replicas are of notable nineteenth-century Utah gravemarkers. The all-seeing eye was at one time a more common Mormon symbol. Here it is used in combination with the chain of three links, representing the Trinity or the chain of being. The second stone is a primitively carved gravemarker displaying a beautiful folk rendition of the beehive carved in 1869. The third stone was carved by William Ward, a well-known Salt Lake stonecutter. His elaborate portrayal of Thomas Tanner's blacksmith shop provides an outstanding example of an occupational marker. (Photograph by Bruce Baker) 149 |