R. A. Miller (1912- 2006) Original "Lord Love You" Dinosaur on Metal Panel. Measures 18 1/2"11 1/2". Signed lower right. Weight 2 pds. Shipping on this item offered through, Pak Mail 843-849-0310 - info@charlestonshipping.com or Quik Mail Etc 843-723-6598 quikmailetc@gmail.com UPS (843) 203-3466 store7194@theupsstore.com Please contact one of them or your own choice of shipper directly. Thank you. Reuben Aaron Miller (1912- 2006) was a self-taught folk artist, best known for his whirligigs, metal cutouts and drawings. Miller began producing outsider art late in life, placing hundreds of his completed works on his property, as well as selling them on the roadside. His work gained wider recognition in the 1980s, when it was featured in a R.E.M. music video, and subsequently exhibited in museums of art. Widely collected, and in constant demand, Miller is acknowledged as one of the more notable senior folk artists in the United States.The youngest of eight children, R.A. Miller was born July 22, 1912 in the East Hall County community of Rabbittown, Georgia on the outskirts of Gainesville. Six months before he was born, his father was shot and killed over a land dispute for the control of a public road. For years after, the fatherless family "got by on farming cotton, hunting and fishing".Miller dropped out of school at the age of 12 and went to work in a cotton mill. He also chopped wood for 50 cents a load. Miller experimented with a number of themes, but the better known pieces, which he produced in numerous variations, are animals, devils, and "Blow Oskar". Miller lived out most of his life on the same property where he was born, only moving to a nursing home in his final years. In 2006 Brenau University's Simmons Visual Arts Center featured his works in an exhibit titled "R.A. Miller: A Tribute." The Georgia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Miller's work in 2009. The exhibit, titled "Lord Love You: Works by R.A. Miller from the Mullis Collection" ran August 15 through October 24, 2009. It featured 83 paintings, drawings, sculptures and whirligigs by Miller. On July 23, 2012 an exhibit and "birthday party" was held at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center, in Gainesville, Georgia to recognize the works of R.A. Miller, and to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late artist.

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