Hildreth Meière Documentary Series - Watch Trailer
Commissioned by: Delano & AldrichMedium: oil on woodExecuted by: Hildreth MeièreNonextant
One of Hildreth Meière’s early commissions evolved from a Beaux-Arts project at the School of Applied Design for Women for which she had won a medal.1 Architect Chester Aldrich commissioned her to design four floor-to-ceiling panels for an octagonal breakfast room at the home of S. L. Fuller, 43 Park Avenue, that he had designed.
Meière helped select colors for the woodwork and ceiling of the breakfast room. She also supervised the installation of the panels. Meière exhibited her studies at the thirty-sixth annual exhibition of the Architectural League of New York in 1921.
For a full discussion, see Catherine Coleman Brawer and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière (New York: Andrea Monfried Editions, 2014): 35-36.