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Bertha Sophia Menzler Dressler Peyton

Bertha Sophia Menzler Dressler Peyton (1871 - 1947) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Arizona, Illinois.  Bertha Peyton is 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 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 Olivier Merson. 

Returning to the United States, she married Edward Dressler in 190   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2435 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Bertha Sophia Menzler Dressler Peyton

   Publications  Book References:  31
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31 Book References for Bertha Sophia Menzler Dressler Peyton
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Fahlman, Betsy; (Essay); Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, (Directory) Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945
(Exhibition catalog)
92 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn Boston Art Club: 1855-1950 88 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Record of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1896-1996
(Exhibition catalog)
3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1992 Sternberg, Paul E Things of Beauty/Floral Still Life Art by American Women
(Exhibition catalog)
38 Yes
1991 D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway 147 Yes
1991 Sternberg, Paul E Art by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
(Exhibition catalog)
146 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Sternberg, Paul E Art by American Women
(Exhibition catalog)
17 Yes
1990 Sternberg, Paul E Centennial Exhibition 1889-1989 Members National Assoc Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Sternberg, Paul E Paintings by American Women The Collection of Louise and Alan Sellers
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1976 Kovinick, Phil The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960 59 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1940 Klug, William L (Introductory Essay) Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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