Religious-themed artwork by Teichert includes Christ in a Red Robe, Queen Esther, and Rescue of the Lost Lamb.

She painted 42 murals related to stories in the Book of Mormon which reside in Brigham Young University's (BYU) Museum of Art.

[3] She was the second of ten children born to Frederick John Kohlhepp, a railroad worker and rancher, and Mary Ella Hickman, a suffragette and pamphleteer.

[4]: 180 Teichert's mother was an educated woman, who attended the Sacred Heart Academy in Ogden, Utah, instructed in language, arts, and music.

[4]: 33  Fred sustained an eye injury while working in the railroad yards, which required the family to move frequently to various rural communities where they would open and run small shops.

[3] She returned home, and after graduating from Pocatello High School,[6] she taught in Idaho to earn money to travel east.

Minerva spent most of her life on a ranch in Cokeville, Wyoming, while painting the things she knew and loved best: scenes from western Americana, and religious artwork expressing her deeply held convictions.

[5] During her early years of marriage, she sketched on scraps of wood and paper because there wasn't enough money to buy art supplies.

[11]: 11 Women and western themes feature prominently in Teichert's works, such as The Madonna of 1847, which depicts a mother and child in a covered wagon, crossing the plains to settle in Utah.

[11]: 12  Though among her most noted works, Teichert did not paint the Book of Mormon murals under specific commission, but intended them for display at a "temple of art."

She corresponded with high LDS Church officials such as J. Reuben Clark regarding her hopes dreamed this museum and school of art would someday be built in Salt Lake City.

[17] Along with other renowned American artists of the twentieth-century, Teichert's work was featured in the semi-permanent exhibition "Becoming America" at BYU's Museum of Art from 2019 to 2022.

[22] The material was photographed and diagrammed before being turned over to BYU Risk Management officials for transportation to the property owners for preservation.

[22] Fire crews stated that, had they been aware of the significance of the painting, they would have made efforts to recover it prior to the collapse of the building's roof.

[23] A charred, L-shaped fragment approximately 72.5" by 19.5" that had been wrapped around a wooden support near the bottom of the canvas was all that remained of the painting after the fire.

[24] The fragment was displayed along with 45 original Teichert paintings at an exhibit at the Church History Museum from July 2023-July 2024.

[26] The loss resulted in a project to catalog all original artworks in the church's buildings throughout the United States and Canada, an effort which tallied ten Teichert paintings in need of restoration or preservation.

For example, an unnamed painting depicting seagulls saving Mormon pioneers from a plague of crickets was shown in the Salt Lake Tribune in 1931.

During conservation, infrared photography of the canvas revealed the remnants of the earlier gull painting, which included an elderly man in a central position rather than the young woman featured in the later version.

As part of a similar project, it was also announced that nearly 4000 square feet of mural painting by Teichert would be removed from the World Room of Manti Utah Temple.

The mural covered the entire interior wall surface of the room, which Teichert's grandson described as the Latter-day Saint equivalent of the Sistine Chapel.

[29] Plans called for the murals at both the Manti and Salt Lake temples to be "carefully photographed and documented before removal," and noted "some of the original portions are being preserved in the church's archives.

Following this and associated renovations to the temple, the murals were viewable by the general public for the first time since 1985 during an open house in March and April 2024.

[29] In June 2021, Tim Teichert, a grandson of the artist and the executor of her estate, filed a lawsuit against the church in the Wyoming 3rd Judicial District court after he noticed three original Teichert paintings, Relief Society Quilting, Cast Your Nets on the Other Side, and Handcart Pioneers had been removed from the faith's meetinghouse in Cokeville, Wyoming.

[34][27][35] The Teichert estate alleged that during March or April 2020, while the building was closed and inaccessible to the public in consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the paintings had been replaced with prints of the same works by the Church History Department.

Perry reportedly visited with the Church Historian and Recorder, and subsequently assured the family the paintings would not be removed from the Cokeville chapel.

[37] In a separate case, the Teichert estate filed a federal suit in January 2023 in the California Central District Court against the church, BYU, the BYU Museum of Art, Deseret Management Corporation, Desert Book Company, and Latter-day Home LLC.