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Miller, Betty Fischer,
Portrait male -- Fischer, Joseph, Jr.
Portrait male -- Fischer, Joseph, Jr.
Occupation -- Other
Painting
Joseph Fischer Jr., (painting).
Artist:
Miller, Betty Fischer, painter.
Title:
Joseph Fischer Jr., (painting).
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil.
Dimensions:
23 x 17 3/4 in.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Fischer, Joseph, Jr. -- Bust
Portrait male -- Fischer, Joseph, Jr. -- Profile
Occupation -- Other -- Businessman
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio, 546 East Bowman St., Wooster, Ohio 44691 Accession Number: 2005.3153.002
Provenance:
Gift of Woodbridge, Maybelle (Fischer), estate of, 1979.
Remarks:
Portrait of Joseph Fischer Jr. (painted by his daughter, Mrs. Roy W. Miller (Elizabeth “Betty” Fischer). Joseph Fischer Jr., learned the trade of granite cutter/stone mason from his father, but later owned and operated the Wooster Book Bindery with his brother, Jacob Fischer, in the 1890s. After his brother died unexpectedly in 1908 at the age of 39, Joseph became the sole operator of this business. Joseph Fischer Jr. married Sidney McAfee in October of 1895. They had two daughters together, both graduating from the College of Wooster. The donor, Maybelle (Fischer) Woodbridge, was a former Orrville area teacher in the 1920s. Other known artwork by Betty (Fischer) Miller: a cover page drawing in the 1922 College of Wooster, Index, for Women's Athletics.
References:
Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio, 2018
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 42760074
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Inventory of American Paintings
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