Collections: American Art: Still Life

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Still Life

Alma Hirsig Bliss was one of many women active in the miniature revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She belonged to professional organizations, exhibited widely, and won awards for her work, which included landscapes and still lifes in addition to portraits. Exemplifying the expanded repertoire of subject matter that artists explored in the miniature format, this painting allowed Bliss to showcase her skill at capturing the material properties of a range of different objects.


• Artist: Alma Hirsig Bliss, American, born Bern, Switzerland 1875-after 1959
• Medium: Watercolor painting in brass frame under glass
• Dates: 1930
• Dimensions: Image (sight): 2 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (7.5 x 10.5 cm) Frame: 4 11/16 x 6 1/8 in. (11.9 x 15.6 cm)
• Signature: Signed lower right: "A H BLISS / 1930"
• Collections: American Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 31.748
• Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund
• Image: Overall, 31.748_bw_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Alma Hirsig Bliss (American, born Bern, Switzerland 1875-after 1959). Still Life, 1930. Watercolor painting in brass frame under glass, Image (sight): 2 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (7.5 x 10.5 cm) Frame: 4 11/16 x 6 1/8 in. (11.9 x 15.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 31.748 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 31.748_bw_SL1.jpg)