Title: |
Miniature Head |
Artist: |
Miller, Kenneth Hayes (Kenwood, NY, 1876 - Manhattan,
1952) |
Date: |
1919 |
Medium: |
Original Etching |
Note: |
Kenneth Hayes Miller: From his position as instructor
of painting and composition at New York's Art Student 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. |
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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. 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 beautiful etching entitled, Miniature
Head. |
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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 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. |
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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. |
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"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.'" *
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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 |
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G. B. Opitz, "Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American
Painters, Sculptors and Engravers", New York, Apollo Books, 1987,
p. 624. |
Size: |
3 1/8 X 2 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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View larger Framed Image |
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Condition: |
Printed upon laid, watermarked paper and with margins extending
at least 1" on all sides. Containing faint foxing (particularly on the
verso), else a fine impression and in very good condition throughout.
Signed with his "H M" monogram and dated "19" in the plate to the upper left and also
signed in pencil by Kenneth Hayes Miller under the plate-mark. Miniature Head 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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