Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| | Miniaturist, illustrator. Born in Johnstown, PA on Nov. 12, 1868. Wirth studied at the PAFA, Pennsylvania School of Design for Women, and the Philadelphia School of Miniature Painters. While maintaining a home in Johnstown, she had a studio in Altadena and Pasadena, CA from about 1919, and appears to have settled in southern California in the 1930s. Her death occurred in Los Angeles on March 14, 1939. Member: Calif. Society of Mm. Painters. AAA 1917-33; CA&A; WWAA 1936-39; SCA. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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