Dorothea Adelheid Dreier (American, 1870-1923)
Dorothea Adelheid Dreier
American, 1870-1923
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Dorothea Adelheid Dreier was an American painter.
Dreier was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 8, 1870. Her five siblings included the painter Katherine S. Dreier, social reformer Mary Dreier, and the labor leader Margaret Dreier Robins. She studied in New York City where her teachers included John Twachtman and William Merritt Chase. She studied at the Art Students League of New York. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists.
She died in 1923 in Saranac, New York. A posthumous retrospective of her work was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1925.
Dreier's work is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Her papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.