Pioneers Arriving - Minerva Teichert
This joyful and colorful painting of the arrival of the pioneers into the busy and bustling Salt Lake Valley is a wonderful example of how Teichert saw the hope that came with being a Latter-day Saint pioneer. With her strapped canvas bag and her children tow, this painting represents great enthusiasm. See below for additional details & history:
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Pioneers Arriving by Minerva Teichert (c1936)
Minerva Teichert saw the hope that came with being an early pioneer entering the Salt Lake Valley. She painted many times with exuberance, heartfelt determination and faith. With her colorful handbag and dressed as if ready to enter Zion this mother leads her family into a new world just beyond the canyon walls. This painting captures a very enthusiastic scene for these Latter-day Saint Pioneers.
More about Pioneers Arriving
One of the common themes throughout Minerva Teichert’s painting is the theme of early Latter-day Saint pioneers. Minerva spoke of stories her grandmother would tell how Saints would was their clothes and bathe before they would enter the Salt Lake Valley. They wanted to put on their best clothes and feel like they had finally arrived. There was a sense of pride and personal esteem that made them want to, as Minerva’s grandmother said “Adorn themselves accordingly.”
More About Minerva Teichert
Minerva Teichert was an artist whose works ranged from western American subjects to many religious paintings primarily depicting the history of the Latter-day Saint movement. This includes Minerva’s several works requested by the Church that were used to illustrate the stories using Book of Mormon art. She is also well known for the many murals she painted in public and private buildings scattered throughout Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. She was born Minerva Kohlhepp in 1888 in North Ogden, Utah. Minerva was the second of ten children and spent most of the first half of her life doing just as much farm work as she did painting. She studied under famous artists like Robert Henri at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. When she was 29 years old, Minerva Kohlhepp married Herman Teichert on September 15, 1917. However, only one year after their wedding, World War One broke out and Herman left for battle. Although Minerva traveled with Herman throughout his boot camp training and transfers, she was eventually forced to bid farewell and stayed at home with their newborn baby son. During the early years of their marriage, everything was in short supply because of the war, so Minerva Teichert would paint on scraps of wood and paper because there simply wasn’t enough money to buy art supplies. Fortunately, Herman returned home after the war and the couple went on to have four more children. Minerva and Herman spent most of their lives on a ranch in Cokeville, Wyoming. Much of Minerva Teichert art can also be found by searching for LDS art, LDS church pictures, and Mormon art; even though these are not official names of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.