Name Birgitta Farmer | ||
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Died 1939, Syracuse, New York, United States | ||
Birgitta Moran Farmer (1881–1939) was an American artist particularly known for her portrait miniatures.
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Life
Farmer was born in Lyons, New York. She attended Lyons Public School, graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rochester, New York, and graduated from College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University.
At commencement, she won the 1906 Hiram Gee Award in Painting She used the award to study at Academie Julian and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere Paris during 1906-1907. Among other places, she roomed at the American Girl's Club in Paris.
She married Dr. Thomas Patrick Farmer of Syracuse, New York. They had four children.
She exhibited with the American Society of Miniature Painters, the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Associated Artists of Syracuse.
She died in 1939 in Syracuse, New York of cancer.
Art
Farmer's work including her 1924 self-portrait was exhibited at the 24th Annual Exhibition of American Society of Miniature Painters 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 Century of Progress "Exhibition of Miniature Paintings by Living Artists", The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Four Centuries of Miniature Painting", and the Smithsonian American Art Museum National Collection of Fine Arts
Moran is included in the National Portrait Gallery (United States) Catalog of American Portraits.
Her art was often signed "B K Moran", "Moran", or "B M Farmer".