Grant Romney Clawson - Walking On Water

In the right hand corner of the art where you typically find an artists signature, you’ll instead see two artists names listed. When added to a piece of artwork, it means the first artist listed painted their version “after” the original artist. In this case, Grant Romney Clawson recreated the work done by Julius Von Klever. Why would an artist do this? Often an artist will do this as a tribute, or at times because the original has been lost to the public, which is the case here.Back in the day, before large format printers were available and the LDS church didn’t have many artists of the faith like they do now, the church hired Grant Clawson to paint an incredible amount of murals for them. In the old north visitors center on temple square, or the church office building (the giant piece on the east side), you’ll see some very large examples created by Grant. Those paintings were originally by Joseph Harry Anderson, but most likely, every print you’ve ever seen published or hung in a