Touch Me Not

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Minerva Teichert, 1937

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

Touch Me Not

Minerva Teichert, 1937

Gestures and Poses

Teichert owned a red-bound book with photographs of figures in various “attitudes” or poses commonly used in dramatic presentations in the early twentieth century. The stylized gestures formed part of the popular Delsarte System of Expression introduced to America in 1871 by Steele MacKaye, a pupil of Francois Delsarte (1811-1871), the French inventor of the system.

By mid century viewers were no longer familiar with the Delsarte System, but Teichert still understood the power and impact of these theatrical poses. (“Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint” Exhibition, 7/26/07-5/26/08.)

Touch Me Not is part of our Beholding Salvation and Pageants in Paint exhibitions.

What’s Going On?

A male figure, dressed in white robes, stands at the left side of the painting; a yellow/white halo highlights his head.  He holds up both of his hands, and each has a wound.  A female figure kneels at the right of the painting. She wears a dark yellow dress with a red and blue striped scarf over her right shoulder and a close-fitting head piece.  Both of her hands are raised up towards the man. Both figures are placed on ground made of a rock pattern and the background is mountainous rock.

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 10.6", 21" x 15.9", 30" x 22.7", 36" x 27.2"

Frame

Black, Espresso, Natural, Print Only

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