Bertha Sophia Menzler Dressler Peyton - Artist Info

About Bertha Sophia Menzler Dressler Peyton

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Bertha Menzler Dressler, Bertha Menzler, Bertha Menzler-Peyton
  • Biography

    Born and raised in Chicago, Bertha Menzler Dressler Peyton had the distinction of painting the first canvas acquired by the Santa Fe Railway Company. Purchased in 1903, it was an Arizona landscape titled San Francisco Peaks. The Company later acquired several more of her works including Evening on the Arizona Desert (1907); At Close of Day, Grand Canyon; (1912) Desert Effects, Arizona and Sunshine and Shower, Grand Canyon, both in 1918.

    Her Arizona painting, Bright Angel Trail, is in the Chicago collection of the John H. Vanderpoel Art Association. She also did paintings of Arizona Indians including the Hopi Indians at Walpi.

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