Shouting Hosannah

The sense of excitement and relief the handcart pioneers must have felt approaching the Salt Lake Valley shows in the beautiful painting. A woman turning back to raise a handkerchief to those traveling Latter-day Saint handcart pioneers behind. This gesture holds deep meaning to Latter-day Saints everywhere. The colors are bold and the expression is remarkable.

Minerva Teichert created dozens of murals in public buildings all around Utah; none of them were funded through the WPA. While most of her murals were western themed, there were many with “crossover” meanings. Those who knew Mormon history would recognize the story blended within a scene of wagons and oxen. Those who didn’t know the local history saw her murals as beautiful scenes of the American west. In 1935 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints commissioned Minerva Teichert to paint an over-sized vertical mural specifically for the Presidential suite in the Hotel Utah. The mural was intentionally created so that it could be removed or moved. At almost 12 feet tall, it was an impressive part of the suite.

Eventually the mural was converted to a framed piece of art and put on display in Salt Lake’s Hotel Temple Square. Originally Titled Zion Ho! - The Handcart Pioneers, it’s now known as simply Handcart Pioneers. Much of her mural work was done during the Great Depression. Minerva said her main artistic outlet was her murals. Her grandson said at her funeral that Minerva would paint in one room and cook dinner in the kitchen. She would add strokes to paintings between chores. “She was a multitasker—big time,” says her grandson. “She’d be cooking at the stove and walking around [the corner] and putting some brush strokes on the painting.”

Reference: minervateichertgallery.com

Reproduced from the artist's original artwork of Oil on Canvas. Painted 1935.

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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