Marian Ashby Johnson
MARIAN ASHBY JOHNSON has a Ph.D. from Stanford in art history and history, is assistant professor of history at BYU where she also teaches a seminar on Women in the Community, and is director of her ward choir. She and her husband, G. Wesley Johnson, have four children. This essay is largely based on original materials located at the Museum of Church History and Art, Salt Lake City, and the archives of the College of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The author thanks the BYU College of Fine Arts and the History Department for support and the Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Foundation for an additional grant. Special thanks go to Robert O. Davis, curator of the Museum of Church History and Art, and to Carma Dejong Anderson, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Harriet Arrington, Howard A. Christy, Virgie J. Day, Barbara B. Morriss, Charles A. Vogel, and especially to members of the Teichert family.