For Women’s History Month 2025, we are looking at several Birmingham, Alabama women artists whose work inside and outside the studio established a vibrant art culture in the city and laid the foundation for the next generation of women artists in Birmingham to flourish like Miriam.
Carrie L. Hill (1875-1957) was an acclaimed impressionist painter who not only won recognition for her work nationally and internationally, but was also influential in founding the Birmingham Art Club in 1908 and a leading advocate for a city art museum which would become the Birmingham Museum of Art (opened 1951).
Although Miriam never met Carrie Hill, the Birmingham Museum of Art would become a source of community and inspiration for most of Miriam’s professional artist career in Birmingham.
“Old Mill at Mountain Brook” Carrie Hill, 1928. Oil on canvas. 32” x 38”. Courtesy Birmingham Museum of Art online collection.
“Trussville Furnace” Carrie Hill, 1933. Watercolor on paper. 21” x 16”. Courtesy Birmingham Museum of Art online collection.
