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The Green Bottle

The Green Bottle

Artist: Lillian B. Meeser (American, 1864 - 1942)

Date: c. 1924
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.6 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, George D. Horst
Object number: 1924.394.1
Born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, Meeser studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; the Art Students League, New York City; The Worcester, Massachusetts Museum of Art; and with Hugh Breckenridge, Philip Leslie Hale, Charles Woodbury, and Joseph DeCamp, among other eminent artists. She was a member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance; the North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the Provincetown Art Association, Massachusetts.
She exhibited regularly at the Academy in Philadelphia, where she was awarded the Mary Smith Prize in the annual exhibition in 1924 for this remarkably colorful still life.
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