Agnes Driscoll Original Artwork
Agnes Driscoll Original Artwork
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Story Behind the Art
Story Behind the Art
23 X 35 Oil
We know the portraits of Agnes and Mart hung in their Snake River Bottoms home up until 1925. Agnes’ maiden name was Teichert, and it would be her brother, Herman, that Minerva would marry.
“Everyone always entered the house through the kitchen and visited in the kitchen. I only remember going into the living room once, it was a dark room. It had the pictures Minerva painted of Agnes and Martin hung on the wall. Agnes never had running water you could drink, so she always have to haul her drinking water. Agnes always cooked on a wood burning or coal stove. She never had an electric stove.”
The application of paint on this and the portrait of Martin Driscoll is thicker for Minerva. It is classic, as she would have been taught back East. Elements of Minerva’s unique style appear in Agnes and Martin’s faces. We believe these paintings were painted after 1912 and prior to 1920. While Martin died in 1936, Agnes lived until 1973.
About the Artist
About the Artist
1888 - 1976
The works of western American artist, Minerva Teichert, have received increasingly popular and critical acclaim in recent years. 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.
Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert was born in North Ogden, but grew up homestead farming in the vicinity of American Falls, Idaho. Her father encouraged her childhood sketching and she soon 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. From there her skills in art and design began to blossom!
Minerva Teichert art and paintings have a beauty all their own, her expression of color and symbolism give hope and peace to all those adorn their homes with her paintings.
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