The following is from Lake E. High, Jr. Robert J. Mills (1920 1981). Robert James Mills, "Bob" to his friends, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1920. He died there of heart failure at the too... Read full biography
The following is from Lake E. High, Jr. Robert J. Mills (1920 1981). Robert James Mills, "Bob" to his friends, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1920. He died there of heart failure at the too young age of only 61 in 1981. The young Robert Mills received a scholarship to the Booth Bay Harbor... Read full biography
The following is from Lake E. High, Jr. Robert J. Mills (1920 1981). Robert James Mills, "Bob" to his friends, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1920. He died there of heart failure at the too young age of only 61 in 1981. The young Robert Mills received a scholarship to the Booth Bay Harbor School of Arts in Maine at the age of 19. He studied there under Ted Kautzky and Faber Birren. His love of that area lasted all of his life. Each year he would try to get back to Maine to paint, so... Read full biography
The following is from Lake E. High, Jr. Robert J. Mills (1920 1981). Robert James Mills, "Bob" to his friends, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1920. He died there of heart failure at the too young age of only 61 in 1981. The young Robert Mills received a scholarship to the Booth Bay Harbor School of Arts in Maine at the age of 19. He studied there under Ted Kautzky and Faber Birren. His love of that area lasted all of his life. Each year he would try to get back to Maine to paint, so now his body of work includes not only the scenes, woods and fields of his native state, but also of the rocky coast of New England. In 1941 Mills entered Pratt Institute for commercial art and studied under William Longear. In 1945 he came back to... Read full biography
The following is from Lake E. High, Jr. Robert J. Mills (1920 1981). Robert James Mills, "Bob" to his friends, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1920. He died there of heart failure at the too young age of only 61 in 1981. The young Robert Mills received a scholarship to the Booth Bay Harbor School of Arts in Maine at the age of 19. He studied there under Ted Kautzky and Faber Birren. His love of that area lasted all of his life. Each year he would try to get back to Maine to paint, so now his body of work includes not only the scenes, woods and fields of his native state, but also of the rocky coast of New England. In 1941 Mills entered Pratt Institute for commercial art and studied under William Longear. In 1945 he came back to Columbia and studied under Edmund Yaghjian at the University of South Carolina. In the 1960s and 1970s Mills was teaching at... Read full biography
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