{"id":36182,"date":"2017-01-10T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=36182"},"modified":"2018-09-08T19:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T01:28:22","slug":"a-second-coming-neglected-during-her-lifetime-minerva-teicherts-illustrations-for-the-book-of-mormon-find-a-warm-embrace-from-a-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/a-second-coming-neglected-during-her-lifetime-minerva-teicherts-illustrations-for-the-book-of-mormon-find-a-warm-embrace-from-a-new-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second Coming Neglected during her lifetime, Minerva Teichert&#8217;s illustrations for the Book of Mormon find a warm embrace from a new generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, Minerva Teichert\u2019s work has surged in popularity, receiving from the Mormon community the sort of enthusiastic embrace the artist dreamed about for much of her life \u2014 40 years after her death, reproductions of her work can be found in meetinghouses belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world, and her originals are displayed in prominent locations on the campus of church-owned Brigham Young University. Contrast this with her own lifetime, when mural designs she created for three different LDS temples were rejected, and her most ambitious project, a suite of 42 paintings intended to illustrate the religion\u2019s foundational scripture, the Book of Mormon, went unpublished. In\u00a0<em>A Visual Testimony: Minerva Teichert\u2019s Book of Mormon Paintings,<\/em>\u00a0Brigham Young University\u2019s Museum of Art brings these paintings together \u2014 with a handful of related works \u2014 in an exhibit that celebrates the Mormon modernist\u2019s vibrant talent and begs the question: why did it take so long for these works to become part of the Mormon community\u2019s visual consciousness?<\/p>\n<p>Teichert grew up on a ranch in Idaho, at the turn of the 20th century, with no formal education. At age 14, she visited her first art museum in San Francisco, an experience which inspired her to pursue a career in art. She traveled east to study, first in Chicago and then in New York, where at the Art Students League she was mentored by noted modernist Robert Henri. He encouraged Teichert to paint the \u201cgreat Mormon story,\u201d which she did, in relative isolation, creating hundreds of scenes in oil depicting Western life and the stories of the Mormon people out of her home in Cokerville, Wyoming. Though she painted constantly and prolifically, working at night while her children slept, her desires for official church recognition went unsatisfied until 1947, when she took first prize in the LDS Church\u2019s centennial art competition, and was subsequently invited to paint a mural in the Manti Temple. Flush with excitement from these successes, in 1949 Teichert embarked on her most ambitious project, the Book of Mormon illustrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, Minerva Teichert\u2019s work has surged in popularity, receiving from the Mormon community the sort of enthusiastic embrace the artist dreamed about for much of her life \u2014 40 years after her death, reproductions of her work can be found in meetinghouses belonging to The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[3055],"class_list":["post-36182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts","tag-minerva-teichert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 17:08:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36183,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions\/36183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}