Painter · American
Giverny painter
Richard Edward Miller
Elegant women reading or walking in flowering gardens, in a highly refined palette.
- Dates1875 — 1943
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthSt. Louis, Missouri, United States
Biography
Richard Edward Miller was born at Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1875. He studied at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts in the mid-1890s, then at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1898 and 1899. He spent several years in Paris, exhibited at the Salons and in the United States, and taught at the Académie Colarossi in the early 1900s. He began to summer at Giverny about 1906, and taught summer classes at Saint-Jean-du-Doigt from 1911. His international reputation rested on his figures of women in gardens and interiors. Back in the United States from late 1914, he settled at Pasadena by 1916, taught at the Stickney Memorial School of Art and helped the rise of Impressionism in Southern California. He lived at Provincetown, Massachusetts, after 1918, and painted murals for the Missouri State Capitol at Jefferson City from 1919 to 1923. He died at Saint Augustine, Florida, in 1943.
Giverny
He stayed in Giverny from 1906, teaching summer classes to American women students. In 1907 he married Harriet Adams, whom he had met among his pupils. He left the village in 1912 after a dispute with his landlord. His Giverny painting combines the female figure with the bright interior and the garden.
Principal works
Key points
- 1875Born — St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Giverny1906 — 1912
- 1943Died
Sources
- 01Terra Foundation for American Art, notice d’œuvre « The Pool », inv. 1988.13
- 02Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, notice d’œuvre « La Toilette », inv. 1928.7143
- 03National Academy of Design, New York, collection permanente
- 04Carol Lowrey, “Artists’ Biographies”, in William H. Gerdts, Monet’s Giverny: An Impressionist Colony, Abbeville Press, New York, 1993, pp. 214-221.
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