The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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Emily Muir PUBLICATIONS
1904 Chicago, Illinois - 2003 Stonington, Maine. Known for: Figure, marine, sculpture.
The following information was submitted by Danny Rehmsmeyer:Emily Muir was born in 1904 in Chicago. She studied art with Richard Lahey at the Art Students League in New York. She married sculptor... Read full biography
The following information was submitted by Danny Rehmsmeyer:Emily Muir was born in 1904 in Chicago. She studied art with Richard Lahey at the Art Students League in New York. She married sculptor William Muir and moved to Stonington, Maine in 1939. She was an accomplished painter, sculptor, writer,... Read full biography
The following information was submitted by Danny Rehmsmeyer:Emily Muir was born in 1904 in Chicago. She studied art with Richard Lahey at the Art Students League in New York. She married sculptor William Muir and moved to Stonington, Maine in 1939. She was an accomplished painter, sculptor, writer, designer, architect, conservationist and community activist. She was the first woman to serve President Dwight D. Eisenhower's National Commission of Fine Arts and later President Richard Nixon... Read full biography
The following information was submitted by Danny Rehmsmeyer:Emily Muir was born in 1904 in Chicago. She studied art with Richard Lahey at the Art Students League in New York. She married sculptor William Muir and moved to Stonington, Maine in 1939. She was an accomplished painter, sculptor, writer, designer, architect, conservationist and community activist. She was the first woman to serve President Dwight D. Eisenhower's National Commission of Fine Arts and later President Richard Nixon appointed her to the advisory committee for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She built a substantial career for herself as a painter and a designer of homes. Although Emily Muir was primarily known as a "Maine artist," in her earlier years she... Read full biography
The following information was submitted by Danny Rehmsmeyer:Emily Muir was born in 1904 in Chicago. She studied art with Richard Lahey at the Art Students League in New York. She married sculptor William Muir and moved to Stonington, Maine in 1939. She was an accomplished painter, sculptor, writer, designer, architect, conservationist and community activist. She was the first woman to serve President Dwight D. Eisenhower's National Commission of Fine Arts and later President Richard Nixon appointed her to the advisory committee for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She built a substantial career for herself as a painter and a designer of homes. Although Emily Muir was primarily known as a "Maine artist," in her earlier years she painted quite a number of scenes from the West Indies. She and her husband Bill built dioramas for the Moore-McCormick steamship line which wer... Read full biography
Emily Muir - Artist Info
About Emily Muir: Books
Books & Publications (3)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Time of My Life
2002Muir, Emily L0 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pages