Anna Campbell Bliss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American painter and architect
Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1925
Place of Birth: Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 12-Oct-2015
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Anna Campbell Bliss
- Anna Campbell Bliss (July 10, 1925 – October 12, 2015) was an American visual artist and architect.
- Her trademark artwork blends color, lights, mathematics, movement, science and technology.
- A modernist artist, Bliss, who was a pioneer of early computer generated art during the 1960s, was one of the first artists to utilize computer technology in her artwork.
- Examples of her work are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cliff Lodge in Alta, the J.
- Willard Marriott Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
- She also designed houses with her husband, architect and professor Robert Bliss, through their architectural practice, Bliss & Campbell Architects.Bliss was based in Salt Lake City for much of her career.
- Some of her largest and best known work can be found throughout Salt Lake City and the surrounding region, including her first public commission, "Windows", a 30-foot mural composed of squares which was installed from 1989 to 1990 at the former date processing center at the Utah State Capitol; "Light of Grace", a stained glass wall of windows installed at Saint Thomas More Catholic Church in Sandy, Utah, in 1993; and "Extended Vision", installed from 2001 to 2003, a series of screenprinted and etched plates which are on display in the lobby of the Cowles Mathematics Building at the University of Utah.
- One of Bliss' major art commissions included "Discoverers," a mural recalling the topography of Salt Lake City, which was officially unveiled in Concourse E of Salt Lake City International Airport in 1996.
- During the creation of "Discoverers," tested the attitudes of socially conservative Utah by including nudes in the mural.
- However, as she later explained in a 2012 interview, ""I included nudes in a minor way, just to establish a relationship between the ideas and people...Because of local attitudes, I couldn't have the nudes." Instead, she added computer generated figures to the airport's mural at the suggestion of one of her assistants.
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