SAINTS DRIVEN FROM JACKSON COUNTY MISSOURI
Datec.1878
CountryUtah, USA
MediumTempera on muslin
Dimensions196.2 x 287 cm (77 1/4 x 113") (Image)
Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of the grandchildren of C.C.A. Christensen.
Object number830026619
DescriptionThe image is a landscape setting of a scene of violence; male figures armed with long guns attack men, women and children and drive them from their log cabins. In the right foreground a male figure uses a hatchet to break in a door, in the middle ground just right of center a man stands on a roof and breaks apart a chimney stack, and in the left background structures have been set on fire.On View
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