Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

American, 1876-1952

Kenneth Hayes Miller is best known as a teacher and founder of what became known as the Fourteenth Street school. While paintings of middle-class female shoppers from his mature period are his best known, he had a long, distinctly different early phase. Miller was born in the utopian community of Oneida and studied art in the 1890s at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and later at the Art Students League with several prominent, traditional, mural painters, such as Kenyon Cox and H. Siddons Mowbray. Works from his first sustained period of painting are mostly of nude figures set in idealized, romantic landscapes. These poetic, somewhat symbolic paintings, similar to the art of his contemporaries Arthur B. Davies and Bryson Burroughs, were largely inspired by Albert Pinkham Ryder, an artist Miller admired and befriended. After World War I Miller turned to realism. Like the Ash Can school painters, he became a delineator of the ordinary pedestrian, but unlike them was fascinated with the human figure as a vehicle for plastic interpretation. His painting style became less atmospheric as he brightened his palette and delineated objects more clearly. His depictions of robust female shoppers in groups, pairs, or alone established his reputation in the 1920s and 1930s. He also continued to paint the female nude but placed the figure in interior settings and rendered it as a more sensuous and real body than he had in his earlier idealized works. Throughout his career Miller was also interested in etching and sometimes repeated his painted images in prints. After a trip to Europe in 1900 Miller began a long teaching career, first at the Chase School of Art, and when that dissolved, in 1911 he began his more than forty-year association with the Art Students League. His numerous students there included Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Isabel Bishop, Arnold Blanch, Patrick Henry Bruce, Minna Citron, John McCrady, Thelma Cudlipp, Horace Day, Dorothy Eaton, Arnold Friedman, Lloyd Goodrich, Josephine Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Edward Middleton Manigault, Reginald Marsh, George L.K. Morris, Walter Tandy Murch, Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, George Tooker, Russel Wright, Albert Pels, William C. Palmer, Molly Luce, and Helen Winslow Durkee. In his teaching Miller stressed the importance of learning from the art of the past, in particular that of the Renaissance. He was also instrumental in reviving old-master techniques such as casein and tempera painting.

Artist: Kenneth Hayes Miller

Kenneth Hayes Miller"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller, c. 1921

"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures. ...

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1920s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Etching

Kenneth Hayes MillerPortrait of a Woman in Thought, American Impressionist, 1924, 1924

Portrait of a Woman in Thought, American Impressionist, 1924

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in Miami, FL

Signed and dated 1924 upper right Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work. Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso Original period frame Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce

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1920s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Oil

Gerald Leslie BrockhurstCypriano (A Basque Boy), 1927

H 6.32 in W 3.75 in

Cypriano (A Basque Boy)

By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on cream wove paper. 6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches (159 x 94 mm), full margin. Signed in pencil lower center margin, from the edition of 111. A well inked impression with a minor cre...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Handmade Paper, Etching

Lu HaskewTake Me Home, 12x8" oil, framed, 1999

H 19 in W 16 in D 2 in

Take Me Home, 12x8" oil, framed

By Lu Haskew

Located in Loveland, CO

"Take me Home" by Lu Haskew Oil 19x16" framed, 12x8" image size Signed lower left A young child very apparently ready to go home from their intense yet cute look. The child is weari...

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Early 2000s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Canvas, Oil

Art WergerMuse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue), 2001

H 24 in W 35.5 in

Muse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue)

By Art Werger

Located in New Orleans, LA

Muse is #43 of 45. It depicts a young woman in a colorful swimsuit doing her best to swim through the blue waters of the pool. Her mouth is pursed and the bubbles flow out. I sold an impression of this image to an olympic swimming...

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Early 2000s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Etching

Charles Frederick William MielatzCoenties Slip, 1907

H 13.9 in W 9.77 in

Coenties Slip

By Charles Frederick William Mielatz

Located in Middletown, NY

Lower Manhattan and the Seaport as the artist imagined it would have appeared before 1835. New York: 1907. Etching with drypoint on Japon paper, 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (353 x 248 mm...

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Late 19th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Howard Norton Cook'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, Signed Aquatint, 1931-32

H 8.94 in W 11.82 in

'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, Signed Aquatint

By Howard Norton Cook

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...

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1930s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Martin LewisBuilding a Babylon, Tudor City, NY., 1929

H 24.5 in W 20 in D 1 in

Building a Babylon, Tudor City, NY.

By Martin Lewis

Located in Plano, TX

McCarron 76. 12 7/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/4). 6th trial proof (McCarron records 84 impressions including 4 trial proofs). Illustrated L'Amérique de la Dépression: Artistes En...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Etching, Drypoint

Will Howe Foote“Jamaican Girl by the Palm Tree, c. 1930” American Impressionist Portrait Lyme, Circa 1930

H 25.5 in W 21.5 in D 2 in

“Jamaican Girl by the Palm Tree, c. 1930” American Impressionist Portrait Lyme

By Will Howe Foote

Located in Yardley, PA

“Jamaican Girl by the Palm Tree, c. 1930” by Will Howe Foote (American, 1874-1965) A fantastic portrait of a young Jamaican woman set against a vibrant palm frond, painted by the re...

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1930s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Oil, Board

William Merritt Chase"Portrait of Louis Prang" William Merritt Chase, Impressionist Portrait, 1884

H 48 in W 38 in

"Portrait of Louis Prang" William Merritt Chase, Impressionist Portrait

By William Merritt Chase

Located in New York, NY

William Merritt Chase Portrait of Louis Prang, 1884 Signed center right "WM M Chase" Oil on canvas 41 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches Provenance The artist Louis Prang Gift from the sitter to R...

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1880s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Canvas, Oil

Suchitra BhosleGratitude

H 18 in W 14 in

Gratitude

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Lone figure with red

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Oil

Lawrence WilburManhattan Mountains, 1938

H 14.75 in W 12.38 in D 0.5 in

Manhattan Mountains

By Lawrence Wilbur

Located in Plano, TX

Manhattan Mountains. 1938. Etching and drypoint. 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 14 3/4). Artist proof, previous to the edition of 40. An atmospheric impression printed on buff-colored laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Final state' and 'Jones Proof'in pencil. Housed in an archival sleeve. Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...

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20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Drypoint, Etching

John Taylor ArmsBourges – The Cathedral of St. Étienne, 1925

H 14.1 in W 9.14 in

Bourges – The Cathedral of St. Étienne

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on watermarked handmade F J Head & Co cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 14 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (358 x 232 mm); sheet 18 1/8 x 11 inches (461 x 280 mm), full margins. Signed...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Handmade Paper, Etching

Suchitra BhosleRosa

H 20 in W 16 in

Rosa

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Interior Portrait

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Linen, Oil

Previously Available Items

Kenneth Hayes Miller"Swimming Hole" WPA 20th Century American Scene Realism Modernism Gay Figurative, c. 1930s

H 38 in W 37 in D 2 in

"Swimming Hole" WPA 20th Century American Scene Realism Modernism Gay Figurative

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in New York, NY

"Swimming Hole" WPA 20th Century American Scene Realism Modernism Gay Figurative. Signed lower right 29 x 28 inches. Provenance: Collection of Seymour S...

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1930s American Realist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Canvas, Oil

Kenneth Hayes Miller"The Skaters" WPA American Winter Scene Mid-Century Modernism Figure Skating, 1942

H 33 in W 38 in

"The Skaters" WPA American Winter Scene Mid-Century Modernism Figure Skating

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in New York, NY

WPA American Winter Scene Mid-Century Modernism Figure Skating Olympics Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876 - 1952) "The Skaters (Variations on a Pattern by Sign...

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1940s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Canvas, Oil

Kenneth Hayes MillerThe Socialites

H 2.88 in W 3.88 in

The Socialites

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in Wiscasset, ME

Kenneth Hayes Miller was born in Oneida, New York in 1876. He studied at the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design (formerly the New York School of Art and the Chase S...

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1920s Realist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Etching

Kenneth Hayes MillerShoppers Leaving the Shop, 1929

Shoppers Leaving the Shop

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in New York, NY

Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876-1952), Shoppers Leaving the Shop (or, Leaving the Shop), etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Associated American Artists 87, fourth s...

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1920s American Realist Kenneth Hayes Miller Art

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Etching

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