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Herding Cattle across the River

Artist Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert (American, 1888 - 1976)

Date1956

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions48 1/4 × 70 1/2 inches (122.6 × 179.1 cm)
Frame: 50 1/2 × 73 1/4 × 2 inches (128.3 × 186.1 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Nelda C. Stark, 1999

Object number31.260.5

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextBorn in North Ogden, Utah, Teichert grew up in the West. After marriage, she settled on a ranch in Cokeville, Wyoming, and created art while raising a family. She developed an ethereal style to interpret subjects like the Hereford cattle that she knew well from ranching. Her style featured paint applied thinly with loose brushstrokes over a charcoal underdrawing. She often painted decorative borders like this basket weave pattern.

ProvenanceEthel Ernest Murrell; purchased July 28, 1956 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; by inheritence to Nelda C. Stark [1909-1999]; bequeathed December 13, 1999 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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