Love Story

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Minerva Teichert, 1951

Framing available for canvas prints between 10 & 21 inches.

Canvas prints are rolled and packaged in a shipping tube. Paper prints that are smaller than 14” are shipped flat and prints that are larger than 14” are rolled and shipped in a shipping tube.

Framed work is wrapped in packaging foam and shipped in a framed art box.

Description

Love Story

Minerva Teichert, 1951

Here, Teichert imaginatively portrays a group of young women mentioned in the Book of Mormon-the daughters of the prophet Ishmael. As recorded, they left their life in Jerusalem to join Lehi’s family in the wilderness and marry his sons.

This swirling scene of dancing girls, clashing cymbals, and jingling tambourines is Teichert’s imaginative portrayal of the courting dance of Ishmael’s daughters. Although the Book of Mormon says little about the pairing of the young people, the artist has given the event an element of romance and glamour. While the young men provide a musical accompaniment, the maidens in the center–clad in colorful costumes and jewelry–dance and flirt, each in her own personal style. The ram’s horn on the right of the mural may indicate this is also a religiously significant occasion. (Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 7:5 and 16:7-8) (The Book of Mormon Paintings of Minerva Teichert)

Love Story is part of the Pageants in Paint and The First 100 Years exhibitions.

What’s Going On?

A festivity scene with women dancing and playing tambourines.  The foreground consists of women playing tambourines.  Two men are playing cymbals on the left of the painting.  Two men are playing horns on the right side of the painting.  The background consists of blurred figures, camels, and a pale, blue sky.

More About Teichert

The works of western American artist, Minerva Teichert, have received increasingly popular and critical acclaim in recent years. Today, the LDS community loves Teichert. She is a woman who successfully combined both faith and family and left an extraordinary legacy of artistic production.

Minerva Kohlhepp was born in North Ogden, but grew up homestead farming in the vicinity of American Falls, Idaho. Her father encouraged her childhood sketching. Soon, she developed an “indomitable will to succeed and excel in the field of art.” She taught school to raise enough money to go to Chicago for her art studies.

She attended the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York in the early 1900s. There, mural paintings and theatrical pageants were dynamic components of American popular culture. Teichert embraced these art forms. Following the admonition of her art teacher – the American realist painter Robert Henri – she used the visual language these murals provided to tell the narrative of her religious heritage as well as that of the American West.

Additional information

Material

Canvas, Paper

Size

10" x 7.5", 14" x 10.5", 21" x 15.7", 30" x 22.5", 36" x 27"

Frame

Black, Espresso, Natural, Print Only

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