For months, Mormon painter J. Kirk Richards' stunning portrait of a black Mother Eve has been hailed for breaking racial boundaries in the world of LDS art.
In Richards' work "Eve and the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge," an African woman stands amid a pile of leaves in a lush forest, staring at the glowing, bitten apple in her hand. The woman is naked from the waist up, her dark breasts and round nipples prominently displayed. Sun is shining through the trees to illuminate the scene.
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