Bodie Watson Original Artwork
Bodie Watson Original Artwork
SKU:MT1031456Orig
Story Behind the Art
Story Behind the Art
18 X 26.5 Oil
“The Bottoms seems to make men individual. I suppose it’s the independent life most people live.”
Bodie was something of a legend in the Snake River Bottoms. His father was renowned in the region as a cantankerous man. Bodie had grown up tough just to survive at home, much less in the West. He too was a member of the War Bonnet Outfit. He was most known for having lassoed a grizzly on the plains fifteen miles outside of Blackfoot, Idaho. It was said he was such a good rider that he never had to cinch the rope on the bear’s neck until he reached town. Minerva drew a sketch of this in her book, “Drowned Memories.”
The painting itself, like the ones of Dick Driscoll, is an important painting of a known cowboy. Bodie rides his horse and carries his six-gun in its holster. The object in his hand could be some kind of self-fashioned quirt (as it seems longer than most), but this is unknown. This portrait appears to be less complete than the one of Dick Driscoll.
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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