Birgitta Moran Farmer

Farmer was born in Lyons, New York.[1] At commencement, she won the 1906 Hiram Gee Award in Painting.[2] She used the award to study at Académie Julian and Académie de la Grande Chaumière Paris during 1906–1907.[3][4][5] Among other places, she roomed at the American Girl's Club in Paris.[3]

She married Dr. Thomas Patrick Farmer of Syracuse, New York.[6] They had four children.[1] She exhibited with the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters,[7] American Society of Miniature Painters,[8][9] the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters,[10] the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Associated Artists of Syracuse.[11] She died in 1939 in Syracuse, New York, of cancer.[1]

Farmer's work including her 1924 self-portrait was exhibited at the 24th and 25th Annual Exhibition of American Society of Miniature Painters [8][9] and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters's 38th Annual Exhibition.[10]

Her portrait of her daughter "Anne" was included in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Century of Progress "Exhibition of Miniature Paintings by Living Artists",[12] The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Four Centuries of Miniature Painting",[13] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum National Collection of Fine Arts.[14] Farmer is included in the National Portrait Gallery (United States) Catalog of American Portraits,[15] the National Portrait Gallery Library [16] and the Archives of American Art.[17] Her art was often signed “B K Moran”, “Moran”, or “B M Farmer”.[15]