Richard Miller (1875-1943)
Richard Miller was born in St. Louis, Missouri and began the study of art at age 10. From 1893 to 1897, he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then got a job as illustration artist for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. He earned a scholarship to go to Paris in 1898, and studied at the Academie Julian with Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens. In 1901, he became a teacher at the rival school, the Academie Colarossi.
A plein-air and impressionist painter as well as illustrator, Richard Miller was especially known for his paintings of female figures in sunlit interiors. He was part of the American art colony in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, staying from 1898 to 1914 when World War I began. His reputation in France was so distinguished that he was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. Miller, together with his good friends Guy Rose, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker used to paint in Giverny and socialized with Claude Monet.
Returning to the United States, he taught at the Stickney School in Pasadena, California from 1915 to 1917 and was a member of the California Art Club, dedicated to "plein-air" painting.
Miller's early painting was tonalistic, and included a series of night scenes of Paris, but his association with Frederic Frieseke lightened his palette and placed him among the American Impressionists in France. Miller's "favorite color combinations are juxtapositions of greens and purples.
Source: AskArt
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