Dorothea Mierisch

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]

Study for The First Official Airmail Flight (1941), mural for the post office at McLeansboro, Illinois

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.