SALT LAKE CITY — Minerva Teichert's murals instantly tell a story in her unique style of painting.
They depict life in the West, Latter-day Saint pioneers and scenes told in one of the faith's sacred texts, The Book of Mormon. Paintings by Teichert are being prominently displayed in a new exhibit opening at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' History Museum.
"She uses her art to tell important stories and for her, those stories are stories from scripture and stories from the Latter-day Saint migration to the West and the Western United States," said Riley Lorimer, the museum's director. "She is a deeply rooted westerner. Born in Utah, raised in Idaho and lived her adult life in Wyoming and really felt the call and the pull of the West."
Teichert is a renowned artist whose work has been displayed in public buildings (an original work hangs in the Utah State Capitol) and in chapels across the Western U.S. Her style of art was distinctive from her contemporaries, and she did most of her painting inside a tiny ranch house in Cokeville, Wyo.
"She used what she had," said Carrie Snow, the manager of collections care at the Church History Museum. "She used tent canvas, particle board, wood..."
Teichert was prolific, giving paintings as wedding gifts or paying her tithing with them. The paintings in the exhibit come from different sources. One painting was recovered from a Deseret Industries thrift store. It had been donated, and Lorimer suspects the owner did not...
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