Peter MillerOrder Slips, Abstract Still Life by American Female Modernist Peter Miller1970's
1970's
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- Creator:Peter Miller (1913 - 1996, American)
- Creation Year:1970's
- Dimensions:Height: 41 in (104.14 cm)Width: 51 in (129.54 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Condition:Artwork has been cleaned, varnished, in-painted, and inspected by a professional art conservator. A detailed condition report is available upon request.
- Gallery Location:Doylestown, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1402214184172
American artist Peter Miller was born Henrietta Myers in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She began using the name Peter Miller after concluding her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1934 and her marriage to fellow artist and academy student Earle Miller in 1935. She felt collectors and critics would take her paintings more seriously if she was identified as a male.
In childhood, Henrietta and her best friend Ruth picked fictitious nicknames for themselves, and Henrietta reportedly decided upon the name Peter because she liked the idea that it was derived from the Greek word for “rock” or “stone.” Drawn to being one with the natural world would prove to be an essential inspiration to her creativity throughout her life.
Miller is classified as an American modernist, a reputation she earned for having shown at the prestigious gallery and premiere showcase for Surrealist painting of Julien Levy in New York in the 1940s. Reviewers of her exhibitions noted the unmistakable influence of the artists Joan Miró, whose work she owned and whom she knew, and Arthur Carles, whom she studied with, and sources in Native American culture, which came from sharing time between her home state of Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
Miller and her husband Earle considered New Mexico their spiritual home, and in 1935 they built a ranch in Española, about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. Being neighbors of the indigenous people of the Tewa Pueblo, their crafts and religious beliefs fascinated Miller and the reliance of Native Americans upon the land and the animals permeated her work for most of her career. Their belief that all creatures could serve as intermediaries in communication with the spiritual world, inspired Miller to incorporate their symbols in her own paintings, along with signs drawn from indigenous pottery and local petroglyphs. The Millers’ intimate familiarity with the customs, rituals, and ceremonies, was assisted by their friendship with the writer Edith Warner and her friend Tilano Montoya, a Native American from the San Ildefonso Pueblo. Warner and Montoya ran a tearoom and restaurant near the Otowi Bridge by the Rio Grande, which later would become a famous meeting place for scientists associated with the Manhattan Project in nearby Los Alamos.
Miller died at her farm in Pennsylvania in 1996 at the age of 83. The Millers had no children, so upon her death, the artist left her farm and more than 250 acres of land to the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy and the Natural Lands Trust and their ranch and land in New Mexico to the San Ildefonso Pueblo, along with a bequest of funds to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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