ARTIST: Oscar Miller (Rhode Island, 1867 - 1921)
NAME: Dutch Peasant Woman
YEAR: circa 1900
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: One small paint loss by lower edge. Minor craquelure. One small inpainting 1" x 1/2" by the upper edge.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Oscar Miller was an artist with a national reputation. He created over 1500 works. Miller exhibited at most of the great American art institutions: The National Academy, painting titled "Girl Reading" at the 1904 World's Fair. He painted marine seascapes, salon paintings, genre studies, and figure studies. Miller had many studios - New York and Paris as well as Portsmouth. Oscar Miller had married into a Bristol Ferry family. Miller's home and studio were built on Mitchel land that had been an asparagus farm. The Family raised and traded cotton in Florida. The family spent their time between Florida and Bristol Ferry.Oscar Miller was a great organizer with a business mind. His Family had an art gallery on New York's Fifth Avenue so he would also buy art as well as produce it. He always painted in a spotless suit because much of his work was painting portraits and he never knew when a client might drop by unannounced and he wanted to be able to shake their hand. Miller painted the portraits of many important New York, Providence and Fall River businessmen and matrons.During the Spring, Summer and Fall, he would make the rounds of European locales - Holland, Northeast France, Brittany, St. Ives in England, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium. In the winter he would go back to work in his winter studio in Paris to paint works for the great Paris Salon exhibition. Every other year he would return to Bristol Ferry for a few months to visit family and to paint and exhibit locally.He exhibited at many American and European institutions including: American Federation of Arts, American Water Color Society, Art Club of Philadelphia, Art Institute of Chicago, Le Salon de la Societe des Artistes FranÑais, Memorial Art Gallery Rochester, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, Newport Art Association, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Providence Art Club, Salmagundi Club, and the Society of American Artists in New York. A posthumous retrospective was held at the Rhode Island School of Design.When he was in Bristol Ferry he loved to go out to paint at dawn or sunset. He thought the light in Bristol Ferry was like that of Holland or Venice because it was surrounded by water that reflected sunlight upward. More than that, Oscar Bristol Ferry among the most beautiful places in the world.Bristol Ferry was unique. It had the warmest climate on the island and the surrounding water kept the growing fields moist even in drought. People would come to Bristol Ferry farms as a vacation destination. It was a wonderful area for artists to come for the summer season.