Again, Glorified Is at Home in the MOA

September 2025

The BYU Museum of Art recently added Paige Crosland Anderson’s beautiful work Again, Glorified (Atonement Triptych) into its permanent collection. The piece is currently on display in the museum’s Earthbound and Heavenward exhibition.

Again, Glorified adopts the setting of centuries-old altarpieces often found in European cathedrals but adds Anderson’s abstract styling. “The Resurrection was where I wanted to centralize my painting,” Anderson says. The panel to the viewer’s left focuses on Gethsemane, and the third panel alludes to the Crucifixion.

MOA Director Janalee Emmer says of the tryptic, “It allows viewers to appreciate the beauty and complexity of art that is abstract and non-figurative but still grounded to concrete narratives from the Savior’s life.”

Anderson, who lives and works in Utah, was inspired not only by European altarpieces but by stained glass, landscape paintings, and—especially—quilting patterns. As a religious artist, she sees abstract art as “another testament to God’s love of beauty and variety. There is so much variety around us. God created all of it and He loves all of it. I think that abstraction is just another way of God saying, ‘I love you.’”

The piece has been on loan from the artist to the museum since July 2022, when the MOA requested to display the piece. “I was totally floored,” recalls. “I grew up coming here. My art heroes live here. For me to be able to enter that pantheon in a small way felt so humbling.”

The MOA is grateful to Anderson for Again, Glorified and to Joyce Martin Hill and George Hill, who provided funds for its acquisition. Thanks to the generosity of donors, 27 works of art including Again, Glorified have recently been added to the museum’s permanent collection.