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Still Life
Alma Hirsig Bliss
American Art
Alma Hirsig Bliss was one of many women active in the miniature revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She belonged to professional organizations, exhibited widely, and won awards for her work, which included landscapes and still lifes in addition to portraits. Exemplifying the expanded repertoire of subject matter that artists explored in the miniature format, this painting allowed Bliss to showcase her skill at capturing the material properties of a range of different objects.
MEDIUM
Watercolor painting in brass frame under glass
DATES
1930
DIMENSIONS
Image (sight): 2 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (7.5 x 10.5 cm)
Frame: 4 11/16 x 6 1/8 in. (11.9 x 15.6 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "A H BLISS / 1930"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
31.748
CREDIT LINE
Museum Collection Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Alma Hirsig Bliss (American, born Bern, Switzerland 1875–after 1959). Still Life, 1930. Watercolor painting in brass frame under glass, Image (sight): 2 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (7.5 x 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 31.748. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 31.748_bw_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
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