Stage Stop Original Artwork

57.5 X 13 Oil
Minerva’s grandmother, Minerva Hickman, ran a waystation on the old Mackay and Custer stagecoach routes in Ross Fork. This would become the present-day town of Fort Hall. Right around the turn of century, the old stagecoaches were sold off in a sale on the streets of American Falls. “They were fantastic – picturesque. The child that I was I wanted to buy one. I knew, because I had been told, and heard so many say so, that they would soon become extinct in the West. I have never seen one in use since,” wrote Minerva.

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 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.

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