Gary Ernest Smith - Joseph Smith, Jr. Receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood from Peter, James and John 35.5" x 39.5"

Gary Ernest Smith (1942-)
Joseph Smith, Jr. Receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood from Peter, James and John, c1982

Oil on Canvas
Canvas: 35.5" x 39.5"
Frame: 41" x 44.5"

Signed Lower Right: Gary E Smith ©

Sometime during May and June of 1829, Peter, James, and John restored the Melchizedek Priesthood through the prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. 

In a letter written in 1842, now canonized as Doctrine & Covenants 128, Joseph Smith states - "The voice of Peter, James, and John in the wilderness between Harmony, Susquehanna county, and Colesville, Broome county, on the Susquehanna river, declaring themselves as possessing the keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fulness of times!" (Verse 20).

Literature:
Church News: 22 March 2013: Joseph Smith Had Rare Insight into Gospel of John
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Volume 3: Priesthood. Page 1134.

Provenance:
The Artist
The Collection of Blain Hudson, Park City, Utah: from above 1982
The Collection of CJ Peterson, Orem, Utah: from above, 2020