Magpies with Cattle Skull Original Artwork
Magpies with Cattle Skull Original Artwork
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Story Behind the Art
Story Behind the Art
37.5 X 10.25 Oil
Perhaps one of the most unique pieces in the collection, Magpies is unlike any other Minerva Teichert we have seen. It is a completely western themed work featuring magpies at the tail end of picking over a cattle skull. It has one of the most dominant signatures of Minerva Teichert to be found. She was happy with this piece.
The work is also an example of Minerva using almost anything she can find to paint on. The back side seems to have once had another canvas adhered to it. Even more interestingly, there is what appears to be at least one .22-calibre bullet hole in the work. Anything could have been used to puncture the surface of the board the painting is on. She would hang large canvases on nails in her living room. The board could be a fragment from a larger piece, but there are numerous other holes in it as well. Its just kind of fun to think she would have used an old target to paint a painting on…
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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