Alma Hirsig Bliss

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Alma Hirsig Bliss
Born1875 (1875)[1]
Diedc. 1959 (aged 83–84)

Alma Hirsig Bliss (1875 – c. 1959) was an American miniature painter. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[2] and the Brooklyn Museum.[1]

Bliss studied with Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, and Volk and Theodora Thayer in New York and with René-Xavier Prinet, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, and Gabrielle Debillemont-Chardon,[3] the President of the Société des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs and of the Société des Miniaturistes et des Arts Precieux, in Paris.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
  2. ^ "Alma Hirsig Bliss | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  3. ^ Petteys, Chris (1985). Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. p. 74.