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,[1] and she died in Hopewell, New Jersey in 1977.[2]

In 1936, Mierisch participated in the annual exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago and presented a painting titled Abandoned Quarry.[3] In 1939, she painted a mural at the post office of Bamberg, South Carolina, depicting the map of the cotton trade route. The U. S. Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned the work.[4]

In 1941, she painted another mural, "The First Official Airmail Flight", at the McLeansboro, Illinois, post office, celebrating a flight that took place in the town on September 26, 1912. A study of this mural is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[5] The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. owns five of her drawings depicting clothes.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Mecklenburg, Virginia McCord (1979). 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. p. 93.
  2. ↑ "Dorothea Mierisch". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  3. ↑ Art Institute of Chicago (1936). Catalogue of the forty-seventh annual exhibition of american paintings and sculpture. Chicago. OCLC 886342774.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ Miller, Minnie (June 22, 2015). "Bamberg Post Office home to New Deal mural". The Times and Democrat. South Carolina, Orangeburg. p. A 1. Retrieved 11 April 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "First Official Airmail Flight, McLeansboro, Illinois, September 26, 1912 (mural study, McLeansboro, Illinois Post Office)". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  6. ↑ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
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