Gilgal Sculpture Garden
Sugar House · Salt Lake City, Utah
Gilgal Sculpture Garden is one of the most singular and strange outdoor art environments in the American West — a free public garden created over two decades by Salt Lake City stonemason Thomas Child, who carved twelve major granite works charged with Latter-day Saint symbolism and personal vision. The centerpiece is an Egyptian sphinx bearing the face of Joseph Smith, but the entire garden pulses with an outsider intensity that defies easy categorization. Designated a Salt Lake City landmark and maintained by a preservation foundation, it is essential viewing for anyone interested in American folk art, vernacular religion, or the unclassifiable.
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