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Dorothea Mierisch (1885 - 1977) was an American artist born in New York in 1885, and she died in Hopewell, New Jersey in 1977[1]. In 1936, Mierisch participated in the Annual exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago and presented a painting titled Abandoned Quarry[2] In 1939, she painted a mural at the postoffice of Bamberg, SC, depicting the map of cotton trade route. In 1941, she painted another mural at the McLeansboro's postoffice celebrating the first official airmail flight that took place in McLeansboro, Il on September 26, 1912. A study of this mural is held by the Smisthonian American Art Museum.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. owns five drawings depicting clothes[3].
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- ^ "Dorothea Mierisch". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ The Art Institute of Chicago (1936). American Paintings and Sculpture, Forty-seventh Annual Exhibition, October 22 - December 6, 1936. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
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