Dorothea Adelheid Dreier (1870–1923) was an American

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painter.

Biography

Dreier was born in

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, New York, on December 8, 1870, to German immigrants Dorothea Adelheid and John Caspar Theodor Dreier. Her five siblings included the painter Katherine S. Dreier, social reformer

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, and the labor leader

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. The family embraced their German heritage and frequently travel to Europe. Dorothea studied at the

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in New York City under

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, and

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. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. During her life Dreier exhibited at the New York Water Color Society,

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, the Society of Independent Artists, the

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, and Doré Galleries. She died from tuberculosis on September 14, 1923 in Saranac, New York. A posthumous retrospective of her work was held at the

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in 1925. Dreier's work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale University Art Gallery, and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Her papers are in the

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at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Records
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