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1871 Chicago, Illinois - 1947 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: Southwest landscape, portrait and still life painting.
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... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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. Bertha Peyton received her art education at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1893, and she then studied... Read full 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. Bertha Peyton received her art education at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1893, and she then studied for three years in Paris with Aman-Jean, Raphael Collin and... Read full biography