Dennis Smith (sculptor)

He is most noted in LDS circles for having created most of the statues that form the Monument to Women Memorial Garden in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Smith was born in Alpine, Utah in 1942 where he lived until 1961 when he left on a two-year LDS missionary in Denmark.

[1] Smith began his art production in 1968, working in his father's chicken coop.

[5] There are also works by Smith in the Salt Lake City International Airport and Primary Children's Medical Center.

[2] In 1989, Smith's Signing of the Constitution sculpture was placed in US embassies in Moscow and London due to a donation of money from Richard Headlee.