RICHARD EDWARD MILLER

American, 1875-1943

BIOGRAPHY
Richard Edward Miller was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1875. He studied for five years at the St Louis School of Fine Arts and was a contributor to the Saint Louis Post Dispatch. In 1898 Miller obtained a grant and pursued his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris where his teachers were Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.

Richard Miller “remained in France for over twenty years. From 1906 he worked at St-Jean-du-Doigt in Brittany and particu­larly in Giverny. Miller taught at the Académie Colarossi in Paris during the academic year and gave summer classes in St-Jean-du-Doigt and Giverny. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club, of the Association of American Artists in Paris and the Group of American Painters in Paris. He re­turned to the United States during World War I. For the most part, Miller painted human figures and open-air studies like his friend Frieseke, in contrast with his own earlier scenes of Parisian night life executed before 1905 in which the influ­ence of Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet could be seen. His preference was for pure, bright brushed colors reminiscent of Pierre Bonnard, and his portraits showed a gentle sensuality.

“In 1901 Miller took part in the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris for the first time and was awarded a Gold Medal. He won a second medal in 1904 and the Légion d'Honneur in 1906. In 1904 he took part in the Universal Exhibition in St Louis, and in 1910 the 'Giverny Group' exhibition at the Madison Art Gallery in New York together with Frederick Frieseke, Lawton Parker and Guy Rose. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1908.

 “Miller's work was included in the exhibition Lasting Impressions: Ameri­can Painters in France 1865-1915 at the Terra Foundation for the Arts Museum of American Art in Giverny in 1992, and in the exhibition L'Impressionnisme Americain 1880-1915 at the Hermitage Foundation in Lausanne in 2002.” [Benezit, Dictionary of Artists, Paris, 2006, vol. 9, p. 993]

Museum Collections
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Nelson Atkinson Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Univeristy of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

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