"Desirable Above All Other Fruit"

Artist James C. Christensen’s newest book, Lehi’s Dream, has just been published by Deseret Book. The Greenwich Workshop is proud to publish a Fine Art Open Edition print of the book’s featured painting: Desirable Above All Other Fruit, signed by the artist and available now.
      “Tree of Life imagery and its symbolism are present in almost every world creation myth and mythology,” explains artist James C. Christensen. “References, in one form of another, can be found in the Book of Genesis, Chinese and Norse mythology, Hinduism and pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.”
     “Lehi’s Dream (1 Nephi 8) is a wonderful example of this and the Tree of Life is a powerful image. The story and the painting remind us that the fruits of the tree are available to everyone that tries to live a good life. There is a path to be followed and at the end there is the Tree, the love of God, and his fruits are there for all of us to enjoy.”

Greenwich Workshop collectors will also have access to a very limited, collector’s edition of Lehi’s Dream, bound in leather and accompanied by an original stone lithograph that is signed, titled, and numbered by James C. Christensen. The lithograph, 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ , is titled The Fruit of the Tree (left). Only 200 copies of the collector’s edition will be made. Visit http://www.greenwichworkshop.com/ to locate an authorized Greenwich Workshop dealer.

     Lehi’s Dream is the second book collaboration between Christensen and author Robert Millet. Their first book was Parables, produced by The Greenwich Workshop Press for Deseret Book in 1999.