About Hildreth Meiere

  • Biography

    The following, submitted September 2004, is from Louise Dunn, daughter of the artist.

    Hildreth Meiere, a distinguished Art Deco muralist, mosaicist, painter and decorative artist, ranks with the very small number of women artists -- such as Violet Oakley, Berenice Abbott, Isabel Bishop and Georgia O'Keeffe -- whose achievements gained the recognition of the established art world during the first half of this Century.

    Educated at New York's Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, the Art Students' League, the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in Florence, Italy, she became a practitioner of the art of mosaic, and embellisher of ar...

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