When President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, was serving as president of Brigham Young University (1971-80), there was a painting in the school’s collection that he says “spoke to my heart.”
“Forgotten Man” by Maynard Dixon depicts a man down on his luck and sitting on the ground as others walk around him.
“And yet, you see the sun shining on his head,” President Oaks said in a Church News video titled “The Forgotten Man.” “His Heavenly Father knows he’s there.”
President Oaks has a copy of the painting that hangs in his office at the Church Office Building.
“And it speaks to me and reminds me of things that I need to remember,” he said.