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.

[3] In 1936, Mierisch participated in the annual exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago and presented a painting titled Abandoned Quarry.

[4] In 1939, she created a mural for the post office of Bamberg, South Carolina, representing a map of the cotton trade routes in the 19th century.

A study of this mural is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[7] The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. owns a lithograph by Mierisch, as well as five of her drawings rendering clothes, as part of the Index of American Design.