Minerva Teichert’s images are widely seen and known by Latter-day Saints, with copies sold at church bookstores and historic sites, hanging on Brigham Young University’s campus and printed in magazines. Now they're also the star of a special exhibit.
Her paintings, at the center of continuing lawsuits from her descendants, reflect those things “nearest to my heart.”
When she replied that no one had done so in a manner she found satisfactory, he said, “Good heavens, girl, what a chance. You do it! You’re the one; oh, to be a Mormon. You’ll do it well.” Teichert, who died in 1976, was a “muralist, an early 20th-century artistic school that trained artists to paint important stories in public buildings,” said Laura Howe, one of the museum’s curators. Because she intended her paintings “to be seen from a distance of 30 feet, she did away with extraneous details. Her murals often include decorative elements like painted frames that reinforce the flatness of the wall she imagined them hanging on.
She “may be the most widely reproduced and least-known woman artist in the LDS Church,” Marian Ashby Johnson wrote in 1988 in“... She created these in a virtual vacuum ... with no associates who understood her effort to translate Mormon values into art, no professional art community to reinforce her efforts or pose as a critical foil for her work, and no warmly appreciative audience of admiring patrons.
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