New Commissions and Projects for 2011

"Hurrah Hurrah For Israel!"

Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball are called under the most difficult of circumstances to 

serve a mission to England.

"Awakened by Angels"

Nancy Naomi Tracy, Nauvoo Temple

"Parable of the Ten virgins"

Matthew 25:1-13

"Bulletproof George"

George Washington's miraculous escape from death

The Story Behind "Brother's Keeper"

Copyright Bedard 

“Brother’s Keeper" 1856

Artist: Michael Bedard

James Kirkwood. an eleven-year-old convert from Scotland, struggled across the frozen prairie with his widowed mother and brothers. while his mother attended her crippled son and the handcart, James was responsible for his four-year-old brother, Joseph. 

A snowstorm with icy winds strung out the caravan of beleaguered saints. James carried Joseph through rivers of ice, mud, and snow.

Ascending the last miles up Rocky ridge with little Joseph on his back, James arrived late at Rock Creek camp. Here, James Kirkwood succumbed to the extreme exposure of the day and breathed his last for the love of his little brother. He was buried in a common grave with thirteen others who perished that night. Little Joseph eventually made it into the Salt Lake Valley and went on to become a beloved Mormon Bishop of a large and grateful Salt Lake ward.

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
16 x 26	$208
14 x 24	$165
8 x 13	$52
5 x 7	$18

The Story Behind "Ascending Rocky Ridge"

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"Ascending Rocky Ridge"

Artist: Michael Bedard

The day we ascended Rocky Ridge “I’ll never forget as long as I live. It was a bitter cold morning in October as we broke camp. . . Father and Rueben were on the burial detail. Mother, who was helping to pull the heaviest cart, had stayed behind until they could finish their sad work. After a short service we, with my cart, ran ahead to catch the rest of the company, and Mother and Rueben started to follow. Father collapsed and fell in the snow. He tried two or three times to get up with Mother’s help, then finally he asked her to go on and when he felt rested, he would come on later, Mother knew in her heart that he had given out, but perhaps, she said in a few minutes with some rest he could come on. She took the cart and hurried to follow us.”  Later the next day their father was among the deceased.

- William James, Willie Handcart Company

"The Coldest Hour of the Twenty Four" 

Artist: Michael Bedard

“Truly an act of courage and love not to ever be forgotten;  

Brother David P. Kimball, George W. Grant, and C. Allen Huntington, during ‘the coldest hour of the twenty-four,’ carried many of the ill-fated Martin Company across the Sweetwater River at Devil's Gate to Martin’s Cove.” 

- Patience Loader, Martin Handcart Company

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"First Vision of the Restoration"

Artist :Michael Bedard

The personal appearance of Jesus Christ and God the Father to Joseph Smith in the early spring of 1820 marks the most glorious event since the resurrection of the Savior.

“I saw a light, and then a glorious personage in the light, and then another...”

-Joseph Smith 

Bedard Fine Art Gallery 801-803-3415

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
48 x 24	$595
15 x30	$225
10 x 20	$95
9 x 18	$40
6 x 12	$25
4 x 8	$15
3 x 6	$7

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"The Nauvoo Temple"

Artist :Michael Bedard

The Nauvoo Temple is a beautiful sight in the winter season. All is quiet, and the light is clear and soft on the eyes. This is the same time of year that many of the early saints received their temple blessings before the great exodus west.

Bedard Fine Art Gallery 801-803-3415

Bedardfineart@hotmail.com 

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
20 x 30	$295
16 x 24	$195
8 x 12	$45
10 x 15	$50
6 x 9	$20
3 x 6	$7

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
24 x 48	$595
15 x 30	$225
10 x 20	$95
9 x 18	$81
6 x 12	$36
4 x 8	$16

"Advance Express Riders" 

Artist : Michael Bedard

Joseph A. Young, Abel Garr, Cyrus Wheelock, and Stephen Taylor—four heroes with others soon to follow—rode hard up Echo Canyon to find and bring hope to the starving Martin, Hunt, and Hodgett Companies stranded in the early Wyoming snowstorms of 1856.

"Brigham’s Call to Rescue"

Artist: Michael Bedard

 At General Conference on October 5, 1856, President Brigham Young announced that “many of our brethren and sisters are on the Plains with handcarts, stranded without food and provisions, . . . seven hundred miles from this place, and they must be brought here, we must send assistance to them . . . . We must bring them in from the Plains. . . . I shall call upon the Bishops this day, I shall not wait until to-morrow, nor until next day, for sixty good mule teams and twelve or fifteen wagons.”

-Brigham Young

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"A Glorious Light"

Artist :Michael Bedard

The personal appearance of Jesus Christ and God the Father to Joseph Smith in the early spring of 1820 marks the most glorious event since the resurrection of the Savior.

“I saw a light, and then a glorious personage in the light, and then another...”

-Joseph Smith

Bedard fine art gallery 801-803-3415

Bedardfineart@hotmail.com 

"Don't Look back"

Genesis 19:24-26

24  Then the Lord rained upon sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; 

25 And he overthrew those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
24 x 36	$429
12 x 18	$108
6 x 9	$27

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 To Order:

bedardfineart@hotmail.com

801-803-3415

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
16 x 14	$109
11 x 9	$49
8 x 6	$24

 

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"Make Thee an Ark"

Genesis 6:14-18

14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubit the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt the make it.

17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven;and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, an thy sons' wives with thee.

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
12 x 28	$168
6 x 14	$42
3 x 7	$10

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"And I Will Show Wonders In The Heavens"

Joel 2:28-32

28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;  and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke,

31 The sun shall be turned into darkness. and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. 

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
16 x 20	$159
11 x 15	$79
5 x 7	$18

Giclee Prints on canvas:

Image size	price
22 x 28	$308
11 x14	$75
5 x 7	$18

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
16 x 20	$159
10 x 14	$79
5 x 7	$18

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
16 x 22	$176
12 x 18	$108
6 x 8	$24

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
16 x 21	$84
11 x 16	$44
5 x 8	$10

"Trick or Treat"

Giclee Prints on Canvas:

Image size	price
10 x 15	$75
5 x 7	$18