Kenneth Hayes Miller

Head Study

"Head Study", is an original drypoint engraving created by the American painter and graphic artist, Kenneth Hayes Miller. This impression of "Head Study" is printed upon laid paper and with wide, full margins as published in New York around 1920. It is signed, 'Hayes Miller', in pencil under the plate-mark. This is a fine, original example of the engraved and portrait art created by Kenneth Hayes Miller.

Head Study

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Kenneth Hayes Miller (Kenwood, NY, 1876 - Manhattan, 1952)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Head Study by Kenneth Hayes Miller	Original Drypoint Engraving	c. 1920	Signed, 'Hayes Miller', in pencil by Kenneth Hayes Miller under the plate-mark	Sold
02.-		Miniature Head by Kenneth Hayes Miller	Original Etching	1919	Signed in pencil by Kenneth Hayes Miller under the plate-mark and signed with his "H M" monogram and dated "19" in the plate to the upper left.	Sold
03.-		Miniature Head by Kenneth Hayes Miller	Original Etching & Drypoint Engraving	c. 1930	Signed, 'Hayes Miller', in pencil by Kenneth Hayes Miller under the plate-mark	Sold

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Title:	Head Study
Artist:	Miller, Kenneth Hayes (Kenwood, NY, 1876 - Manhattan, 1952)
Date:	c. 1920
Medium:	Original Drypoint Engraving
Note:	Kenneth Hayes Miller: From his position as instructor of painting and composition at New York's Art Students League (from 1911 to 1951), Kenneth Hayes Miller is today most often remembered as the teacher of Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Isabel Bishop, Kenneth Hartwell, Philip Evergood and a host of other outstanding twentieth century painters and printmakers. His influence upon these and many other artists was considerable. Indeed, one cannot fully appreciate the course of twentieth century American Realist art without understanding the work of this artist.
	Kenneth Hayes Miller studied art at the Art Students League, New York, under Mowbray and Cox, and at the New York School of Art, under William M. Chase. Kenneth Hayes Miller, however, was more attracted to the work of the great Renaissance and Baroque masters and of nineteenth century artists, such as Delacroix and Renoir. Throughout his career he dedicated himself to making his art a bridge between the old masters and the moderns. This element is clearly seen in this portrayal entitled, Head Study.
	In 1923, Kenneth Hayes Miller moved his studio and home to the neighborhood of shops, restaurants and apartments on East Fourteenth Street near Union Square. Known as the 'Fourteenth Street School', he became a central figure to artists who dedicated themselves to intimate portrayals of New York City people and life. It is thus impossible to imagine the great New York scenes of Marsh, Soyer, Hopper, Bishop and others without the path finding art of Kenneth Hayes Miller.
	Throughout his life, Kenneth Hayes Miller was as accomplished an etcher and drypoint engraver as a painter. Of course, many of his finest students inherited his passion for these artistic mediums. Today his art is housed in such major American institutions as the Butler Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, New York.
	"In response to the young Reginald Marsh's complaint that the people on Fourteenth Street, whom Miller had encouraged his pupil to paint, were ugly, the artist replied simply, 'They are ugly; they are people. Buy a pair of field glasses.'"*
Reference:	* Nannette V. Maciejunes, Kenneth Hayes Miller?, the Butler Museum of American Art, http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/kenneth_hayes_miller_1876.htm
	G. B. Opitz, "Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers", New York, Apollo Books, 1987, p. 624.
Size:	6 X 5 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon laid paper and with wide, full margins as published in New York around 1920. A strongly printed, fine impression and in very good condition throughout. Signed, 'Hayes Miller', in pencil under the plate-mark. Head Study represents a prime, original example of the famous etched art of Kenneth Hayes Miller.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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