Female angels descend in a graceful curve to join Christ in ministering to the children. Perhaps influenced by her own maternal experiences, Teichert interpreted ministering as also bringing an abundance of food and drink. The youngsters are delighted by the offerings and their physical needs are met. This also symbolizes Christ’s sacramental promise that those who eat and drink of his blood and body shall never hunger or thirst.The angels appear similar to each other and to Christ,
signifying their unity of purpose and their loving devotion to Christ and all of humanity.The children readily accept Christ and the angels, reminding us that they represent righteous generations unified by their faith in the Savior.This is another example of a Book of Mormon scene completed after Teichert’s original series. Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 17:11-24 (Courtesy of the Church History Museum, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
MORE ABOUT TEICHERT
The works of western American artist, Minerva Teichert, have received increasingly popular and critical acclaim in recent years. Today, the LDS community loves Teichert. She is a woman who successfully combined both 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. Soon, she 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.
She attended the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York in the early 1900s. There, mural paintings and theatrical pageants were dynamic components of American popular culture. Teichert embraced these art forms. Following the admonition of her art teacher – the American realist painter Robert Henri – she used the visual language these murals provided to tell the narrative of her religious heritage as well as that of the American West.
Framed prints of Look to Your Children are available for purchase.
