Mira Edgerly-Korzybska

Mira Edgerly-Korzybska (; January 18, – July 13, ), also known as Myra Edgerly and Countess de Korzybska, was an American painter. She specialized in miniature portraits on ivory, though her "miniatures" tended to be larger than average.

Early life Mira Edgerly was born on January 18, in Aurora, Illinois, to Rosa Haskell and Samuel Haven Edgerly. Her father was the director of the Michigan Central Railroad. The family moved to Jackson, Mississippi and then to Detroit, where Edgerly attended The Liggett School. Around 1892, Edgerly moved with her mother and sisters to San Francisco.

Following the death of her father, Edgerly needed to find work to help support her impoverished family. Inspired by a magazine article about American miniature portrait painter Amalia Küssner Coudert, Edgerly began teaching herself to paint miniatures on ivory. In late 1913 or early 1914, Edgerly traveled to Ottawa, where she painted the portrait of Princess Patricia of Connaught. On February 1, 1914 she married Frederick Burt. The marriage lasted only a few months.

World War I and after In August 1914, Edgerly returned to the United States, where she continued painting portraits commissioned by wealthy society members. According to a story from the United States Department of Labor, Edgerly also volunteered as a farmhand in Westville, Indiana during this time.

Edgerly also visited in Washington, D.C., where she met Count Alfred de Skarbek Korzybski, at the time a Polish soldier. On January 17, 1919, the two married, making Edgerly the Countess de Korzybska. The Dodge Children of Detroit, 1926, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Portrait of Alice T. Miner, c. 1916, Alice T. Miner Museum, Chazy, New York The Time-Binder, 1922, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois