The Sacrament

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Minerva Teichert, 1951

The works of western American artist, Minerva Teichert, have received increasingly popular and critical acclaim in recent years. From her modest home in Wyoming, Teichert produced a prolific number of paintings that celebrate the saga of western settlement and the heritage of her Mormon faith. Today, Teichert is beloved among the LDS community as a woman who successfully combined faith and family and left an extraordinary legacy of artistic production. In this painting, against the backdrop of an elaborate Meso-american temple, the resurrected Savior administers the sacrament with the help of his newly chosen leaders.