Miller E. Richard (American 1875 - 1943) - The Woman
24.25 in x 31.75 in
Framed 34 in x 32 in
Oil on canvas
Framed and Signed
Richard E. Miller was an American painter who holds a high place in the American School of Impressionism, he was especially known for his paintings of female figures in sunlit interiors. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and began the study of art at age 10. From 1893 to 1897, he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then got a job as an illustration artist for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. He earned a scholarship to go to Paris in 1898, and studied at the Academie Julian with Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens, shortly thereafter in 1901, he became a teacher at the Academie Colarossi.
While in Paris he became an integral part of the American Impressionist art colony -- there he lived, worked and painted during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, staying from 1898 to 1914 until the beginning of World War I. While in France he was recognized by the French government who bestowed the distinguished award of Chevalier in the Legion of Honor upon him. Miller's early painting was tonalistic, and included a series of Parisian nocturnes, but his association with Frederic Frieseke lightened his palette -- in Paris his good friends were Guy Rose, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker, together they painted at Giverny and socialized with Claude Monet at his Monet's home.
Returning to the United States, he taught at the Stickney School in Pasadena, California from 1915 to 1917 and was a member of the California Art Club, dedicated to "plein-air" painting. He then became a prominent painter in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Provincetown, Rhode Island where, as a teacher at the Mary Wheeler School, he took students to Giverny, France for many successive summers. He died in 1943 in St. Augustine, Florida.
Birth place: St. Louis, MO
Death place: St. Augustine, FL
Addresses: Paris, from late 1890s; Giverny, France, summers, c.1907-11; Provincetown, MA, from 1918
Profession: Painter, illustrator, mural painter, teacher; lecturer
Studied: St. Louis Sch. FA; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens and Constant, 1898-99.
Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1900 (med.), 1904 (med.); AIC, 1900-39 (gold, 1914); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (med.); PAFA Ann., 1902-33 (gold medal 1911; prize 1924); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (med.); Liege Expo, 1905 (med.); Intl. Exh., Venice, 1907; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1910-41 (15 times); NAD, 1915 (prize); Pan.-Pac. Expo, San Fran., 1915 (med.); Allied A. Exh., Brooklyn Mus., 1933 (gold); Macbeth and Grand Central Gals., NYC. Other awards: Knight of the Legion of Honor, France, 1908.
Member: ANA, 1913; NA, 1915; SC; Am. AA of Paris; Am. Soc. of the French Legion of Honor; Int. Soc. PS; Nat. Assn. Portrait Painters; North Shore AA; Paris Soc. of Am. P.; St. Louis AG.
Work: AIC; Luxembourg Gal., Paris; MMA; Gal. Mod. Art, Rome; CGA; City A. Mus., St. Louis; Albright Gal.; PAFA; AIC; Detroit Inst.; Cincinnati AM; PAFA; Queen City Art Cl., Cincinnati; CI; mural, Capitol, Jefferson City, Mo.; Royal Mus., Christiania (now Oslo); coll., King of Italy; Mus. FA, Antwerp; Mod. Gal. of the City of Venice; Musee du Petit Palais, Paris; Joslyn Mem., Omaha
Comments: An important Impressionist painter and part of the circle of American artists who painted in the Normandy village of Giverny. Beginning in 1907, he taught at Giverny the students from Candace Wheeler"s School in Providence, RI. Before 1910, he also taught at the AcadÈmie Colarossi in Paris. He left France just before the outbreak of WWI and settled briefly in St. Louis (painting portraits) before taking a teaching position at the Stickney School in Pasadena, Calif. (c.1915-17). At Provincetown he painted landscapes and figural works of women in sunlit interiors. His middle name is frequently mistaken to be "Emil."

Good condition