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Historic Cody Mural Chapel
The Historic Cody Mural Chapel is a chapel and museum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cody, Wyoming.[1] The chapel was dedicated in 1949 by Henry D. Moyle and was rededicated in 1972 by Hugh B. Brown.[1] HistoryThe idea for the chapel and mural came from Lloyd Taggart and Glenn E. Nielson who were in the local church leadership.[2] Edward Grigware, a local resident, was asked to paint the mural and accepted because he had not painted a religious subject before.[2] Grigware spent a year researching the church before drawing a preliminary sketch.[2] The center opened as an official visitors center in May 1982 with an exhibit explaining how members of the church negotiated water rights with Buffalo Bill.[3] The MuralThe mural was painted on the rotunda of the chapel's foyer by Edward T. Grigware and unveiled in 1951.[4][5] The mural depicts scenes from church history and includes representations of the first eight presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[2] As you leave the room a group of faces representing the Mormon pioneers is depicted above the words, "Lest We Forget."[2] Construction and paintingThe rotunda was constructed by mounting circular boards at 16-inch (410 mm) intervals until they reached the center of the ceiling.[5] The top board is suspended to from beams in the roof.[5] The canvas was then hung on the plaster and painted from miniatures.[5] The canvas and paints were imported from outside the United States.[5] Lithographic reproduction of the muralFred Bond from Los Angeles reproduced the mural for The Cody Mural: A Pictorial History of Mormonism.[5] Several overlapping photos were taken from a platform and turned into negatives.[5] The negatives were then made into transparencies that were custom colored and turned into lithographic plates to a scale of one inch (25 mm) in to two feet (610 mm).[5] References
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