Betsy Flagg Melcher

Betsy Flagg Melcher
Born (1900-04-08)April 8, 1900[1]
New York, New York, United States[2]
Died April 21, 1991(1991-04-21) (aged 91)[1]
Ellsworth, Maine, United States[2]

Betsy Flagg Melcher (April 8, 1900 1991) was an American miniature portraitist.

Early life and education

Melcher was born in New York City. She painted miniature portraits. She studied under Cecilia Beaux,[2] Mabel R. Welch (d. 1959), and Alfred Hoen (18691954)[3]

Mid-life and career

She married John Stevens Melcher (18951956). She had a daughter, Pamela Melcher (19272005), with John, in 1927.[1] In 1942, she was awarded the Levantia White Boardman Bronze Memorial Prize Medal.[2] She painted portraits of Marguerite Yourcenar, Brooke Astor, August Belmont, Jr., Samuel Eliot Morison, and Mary Parkman Peabody.[4]

Later life and legacy

She served as president of the American Society of Miniature Painters.[2] Upon her death in 1991, she was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.[1]

Notable collections

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Betsy Flagg Melcher". Find A Grave. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Betsy Flagg Melcher". Search Collections. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  3. Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
  4. "Melcher Exhibit to Open". The Ellsworth American. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. "Old Woman in Grey". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  6. http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1Q50K2997369Q.334&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!403059~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!siartinventories&term=Flagg%2C+Betsy+Melcher%2C++1900-1991%2C+painter.&index=AUTHOR
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