Arnold Friberg

Arnold Friberg is an American artist born on December 21, 1913 in Winnetka, Illinois, son of a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother. Perhaps his most famous and popular patriotic work is his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge, the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777-1778 during the American Revolutionary War. Friberg is also well known for his fifteen previsualization paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments, used to promote the film worldwide. Friberg received a nomination for an Academy Award for these paintings. Friberg has been admitted as a lifetime member of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for whom he did a series of paintings depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Those paintings appeared in 1948, and soon after was when Cecil B. Demille saw the paintings, especially of the Brother of Jared and the lighted stones, and that is how he got the commission to do the work on 'The Ten Commandments'. The originals now hand in the Conference Center.

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