Painting Utah's Mount Olympus November 6, 2010

Mount Olympus is not the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range but anyone who has seen this awesome natural wonder will agree with the early pioneers who bestowed it with the Greek name for !the home of the gods.' Indeed, Mount Olympus stands today as an imposing, silent sentinel, a powerful symbol of nature's transcendent beauty for the residents of the modern metropolis that has grown at its foot. For the past century and a half, some of Utah's most talented artists [Lee Greene Richards, Gilbert Munger, Edwin Deaken, Anton Rasmussen, David Meikle and others] have attempted to do justice to Mount Olympus...not an easy task for mere mortals and yet through their work, the home of the gods is immortalized in 'Painting Utah's Mount Olympus.'