Birgitta Moran Farmer (1881–1939) was an American artist particularly known for her

portrait miniature A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

Life

Farmer was born in

Lyons, New York Lyons is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 5,682 at the 2010 census. It is named after Lyon, France.

.Syracuse Post Standard January 15, 1939 Page 4
/ref> She attended Lyons Public School and graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rochester NY. Syracuse Post Standard January 15, 1939 Page 4
/ref> A graduate of the College of Fine Arts of

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and a member of

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's Alpha Chapter, she won the 1906 Hiram Gee Award in Painting at commencement.Bulletin of Syracuse University (April 1907), Page 132
/ref> She used the award to study at

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

and

Académie de la Grande Chaumière The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France. History The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho on the rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near the Acadé ...

Paris during 1906–1907.Birgitta Moran Farmer Diary, entry 3 October 1906, owned by familyMacMillan Company, 1927, American Art Annual, Volume 24 ;Volume 26
/ref> Among other places, she roomed at the American Girl's Club in Paris. She married Dr. Thomas Patrick Farmer of

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.The Lyons Republican (Friday, August 29, 1913), Page 7
/ref> They had four children. She exhibited with the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters,The Art News, Vol. 22, no. 23. (1924). The Art News (1923-), 22(23), page 11

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American Society of Miniature Painters The American Society of Miniature Painters (ASMP) was an association of miniature painters, organized in March 1899. The ten founding members of the ASMP included Virginia Richmond Reynolds, Isaac A. Josephi, William Jacob Baer, Alice Beckington ...

,Twenty Fourth Annual Exhibition of the American Society of Miniature Painters New York February 6th-March 10th inclusive: M. Knoedler & Co., 1923. Thomas Watson Library accessed September 11, 201

/ref>The Art News, Vol. 22, no. 16. (1924). The Art News (1923-), 22(16), page 1.

the

Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters was founded in 1901 by Emily Drayton Taylor to promote the work of miniature portrait A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, Watercolor painting, waterc ...

,The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts presents The Thirty-seventh Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the Thirty-eight Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, by Philadelphia Water Color Club and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, Oct 22-Nov 26, 1939, 2nd Edition. the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Associated Artists of Syracuse.The Art News, Vol. 21, no. 38. (1923). The Art News (1923-), 21(38), page 10

/ref> She died in 1939 in Syracuse, New York, of cancer.

Art

Farmer's work including her 1924 self-portrait was exhibited at the 24th and 25th Annual Exhibition of

and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters's 38th Annual Exhibition. Her portrait of her daughter "Anne" was included in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

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"Exhibition of Miniature Paintings by Living Artists",Catalog of an Exhibition of Miniature Paintings by Living Artists, A Century of Progress, General Exhibits Building, Graphic Arts Pavilion (Chicago World’s Fair) May 27- Oct 31, 1933, page 29. University of Chicago Library Accessed September 11, 2016

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 F ...

"Four Centuries of Miniature Painting",Four Centuries of Miniature Painting: A Special Exhibition, Including Loans from Museums and Private Collections and Examples from the Museum's Own Collection, Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the American Society of Miniature Painters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 19 – March 19, 1950 page 15. Thomas Watson Library Accessed September 11, 201

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Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

National Collection of Fine Arts.Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, April 1950. Farmer is included in the

National Portrait Gallery (United States) The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections f ...

Catalog of American Portraits,

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.Archives of American Art:

Anna Margaretta Archambault Anna Margaretta Archambault (1856–1956) was an American artist and author. She is best known for her 1924 book ''A Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania'', which remains in print as of 2020. Life Born in 1856 ...

selected papers, a. 1880-1946accessed June 2, 201

/ref> Her art was often signed “B K Moran”, “Moran”, or “B M Farmer”.

References

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