Alma Hirsig Bliss Explained

Alma Hirsig Bliss
Birth Place:	Bern, Switzerland

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

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alma Hirsig Bliss Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.
2. Web site: Brooklyn Museum . www.brooklynmuseum.org.
3. Book: Petteys, Chris . Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900 . G.K. Hall & Co. . Boston . 1985 . 74.