Dorothea Mierisch
Illustration — Study for The First Official Airmail Flight (1941), mural for the post office at McLeansboro, Illinois Dorothea Mierisch (1885–1977) was an American artist born in New York City in 1885, and she died in Hopewell, New Jersey in 1977. She exhibited at the biennials of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1930 and 1935, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1935 and 1936, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (where she received a prize in 1933), the Montclair Museum (receiving a medal) in 1933, and at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936. In 1936, Mierisch participated in the annual exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago and presented a painting titled Abandoned Quarry.
Dorothea Mierisch
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- 1885 · New York City.
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- 1977 · Hopewell.
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In 1939, she created a mural for the post office of Bamberg, South Carolina, representing a map of the cotton trade routes in the 19th century. A study of this mural is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Work by Dorothea Mierisch is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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- 1.Mecklenburg, Virginia McCord. The Public as Patron: A History of the Treasury Department Mural Program : Illustrated with Paintings from the Collection of the University of Maryland Art Gallery. University of Maryland, Department of Art. 93. 1979.
- 2.Dorothea Mierisch. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 3.Sound View Pres. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. 2. 2268. 1999. 0932087558.
- 4.Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue of the forty-seventh annual exhibition of american paintings and sculpture. 1936. 886342774.
- 5.Post Office Mural – Bamberg SC. Living New Deal.
- 6.Miller, Minnie. Bamberg Post Office home to New Deal mural. The Times and Democrat. A 1. June 22, 2015.
- 7.First Official Airmail Flight, McLeansboro, Illinois, September 26, 1912 (mural study, McLeansboro, Illinois Post Office). Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 8.Artist Info. National Gallery of Art, Collections.
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