Mira Lehr was an American multidisciplinary artist known for founding a gallery for women artists in Miami Beach whose art also reflected her concerns about preserving the environment. Lehr got her degree in art history from Vassar College in 1956. During her time there she studied under Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Wolfgang Lotz, and notable feminist historian Linda Nochlin. After her post-graduate work at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Lehr received a Rockefeller scholarship that sup... moreMira Lehr was an American multidisciplinary artist known for founding a gallery for women artists in Miami Beach whose art also reflected her concerns about preserving the environment. Lehr got her degree in art history from Vassar College in 1956. During her time there she studied under Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Wolfgang Lotz, and notable feminist historian Linda Nochlin. After her post-graduate work at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Lehr received a Rockefeller scholarship that supported a studio in Carnegie Hall. In the 1960s Lehr moved to Miami Beach with her husband. It is there that she and other female artists founded a gallery for women artist called Continuum Gallery, which lasted into the 1990s. She often used unconventional materials in her art like gun powder, fuses, resin, Japanese rice paper, and steel wire. Throughout her career she collaborated with many artist and design companies like Holly Hunt and Stephanie Odegard, for whom she designed handmade rugs. Her work was exhibited widely in the United States and internationally. Some of the museums that has her exhibitions and archives of some of her work include the New Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Getty Museum.
