Book of Mormon Art

Prepared for Battle

“While Amalickiah had thus been obtaining power by fraud and deceit, Moroni, on the other hand, had been preparing the minds of the people to be faithful unto the Lord their God.

“Yea, he had been strengthening the armies of the Nephites, and erecting small forts, or places of resort; throwing up banks of earth round about to enclose his armies, and also building walls of stone to encircle them about.”

Alma 48:7–8

Minerva Teichert (1888–1976), Defense of a Nephite City, 1949–1951, oil on masonite, 36 X 48 inches, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1969