Bertha Sophia Menzler-Peyton

Bertha Sophia Menzler-Peyton (1871/74-1947) was an American painter active in Chicago, where she was born.

Early life

Menzler studied art at the Chicago Art Institute [1]. From there she moved to Paris where she continued her studies with Luc-Olivier Merson, Raphaël Collin, and Edmond Aman-Jean. [2]

Returning to live in Chicago, Menzler-Peyton painted one in a series of eight murals, begun in 1900, that were located on the tenth floor of the Fine Arts Building, lacerated at 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.[3]

At the 1919 annual meeting of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors “held in the board room of the [[Archi- tectural League of New York]] in November,” Menzler Peyton and Miss Florence Francis Snell were elected vice-presidents;[4]

Work

works referenced at the Smithsonian American Art Museum database unless otherwise noted.[5]
  • The Muscovite Family, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  • San Francisco Peaks, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Chicago, Illinois
  • Desert Effects, Arizona, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
  • Sunshine and Shower, Grand Canyon, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
  • Sunshine and Shower, Grand Canyon, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
  • Western Landscape, Santa Fe Collection of Southwestern Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • various private collections
  • Apple Blossoms, Museum of Art (Huntsville, Alabama, USA)[6]


References

  1. ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 613
  2. ↑ Opitz 1986, p. 613.
  3. ↑ Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, forward by Franz Schulze, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001 pp. 12-13
  4. ↑ "Magazine of Art". American Federation of Arts. 11 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". siris-artinventories.si.edu.
  6. ↑ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart?q1=Former%20owner%3A%20Sellars%20Collection%20%28Marietta%2C%20Georgia%2C%20USA%29;rgn1=hart_lo;select1=phrase;size=50;sort=hart_lo;type=boolean;view=reslist;start=151
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