![]() ![]() Miller seemed to turn to highly decorative works of attractive young women in their dressing gowns or kimono about 1904 and these are the works that he is best known for. In these works of stylish Parisian women, the figures are handled in an almost academic fashion with only some areas of the background painted in an indistinct manner. The large, ambitious works Miller produced at the turn of the century were primarily scenes of Paris cafe life. ![]() Miller's work was critiqued by Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant, two accomplished academic painters who had an excellent reputation in the Salon. There he was acquainted with the Chicago painter, Lawton Parker, who helped him get his start in Paris. He lived a modest existence with other students on the left bank. When Miller went to Paris he was already a trained painter and was rapidly making progress at the Academie Julien, the private academy where he and many other American artists studied. Miller, Oil on Canvas, 48 + 1⁄ 2" × 67 + 3⁄ 8", collection of Terra Museum of American Art Paris Louis School of Fine Arts Student Association. He was subsequently honored by receiving the first scholarship to study in Paris awarded by the St. Louis Post Dispatch and was saving money to go to Paris to further his studies. By 1897, he was working as an illustrator for the St. Because of his teachers' orientation and the popularity of what was called the "Tonal School" at that time, Miller's earlier works were of quiet landscapes, Tonalist in orientation. Wuerpel, an alumnus of the school, who had recently returned from Paris, and whose own works ('spare landscapes') were highly influenced by the French Barbizon School as well as the works of Whistler. Louis Museum of Fine Arts and on the campus grounds of the school, students had the opportunity to see important historic works as well as exhibitions which included works from contemporary movements like Tonalism via the works of John La Farge, (1835–1910), and American Impressionism via the works of Theodore Robinson, (1892–1896), whose works were on view there during the 1895–1896 season.Īt Washington University, Miller studied with Edmund H. ![]() Because the school was attached to the St. During his five years at the School of Fine Arts, Miller won many of its prizes and began to exhibit locally in 1894. Louis and it is believed that he attended the fair and saw the thousands of contemporary works that were on exhibit, including works by the artists of the emerging American Impressionist movement and the Tonalist School. The Chicago World's Fair occurred while Miller studied in St. Ives, the organizing director of the school, and perhaps also under Lawton S. Miller was known for his work ethic and excelled at the School of Fine Arts, where he studied under Halsey C. The courses he took in Drawing, Modeling, Painting, Artistic Anatomy, Perspective, and Composition would have been very similar to what a student in France would have received at that time. ![]() This was the first art school in the United States that was part of a university and it relied on the French Beaux-Arts method of curriculum. 1879), first in evening classes in 1891, then as a full-time student in 1892. He studied art at the Washington University in St. Miller began drawing and painting as a boy and first worked as an assistant to George Eichbaum, a portrait painter. His father, Richard Levi Miller, was a well-respected civil engineer from Pennsylvania, who specialized in bridges and his mother was Esmerelda Story, a native of Missouri. Louis, Missouri, which was then one of the largest and most prosperous American cities. Richard Edward Miller was born and raised in St. Over the past several decades, he has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition and his work has been reproduced extensively in exhibition catalogs and featured in a number of books on American Impressionism. Miller was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York and an award-winning painter in his era, honored in both France and Italy, and a winner of France's Legion of Honor. Upon his return to America, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California and then in the art colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled in Giverny. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller (Ma– January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Louis World's Fair, 1904 Silver Medal, Paris Salon, 1904 Chevalier de La Legion D'honneur National Academician Bronze Medal, Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Silver Medal, St. Louis School of Fine ArtsĪmerican Impressionism, Decorative Impressionism Wuerpel, Lawton Parker, Jean-Paul Laurens, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant ![]()
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