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Ralph Davison Miller BIOGRAPHY
1858 Cincinnati, Ohio - 1945 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Landscape, still life and marine painting.
Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “Ralph D. Miller, Painter, 87, Dies. Ralph Davison Miller, 87 … of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive … The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago…... Read full biography
Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “Ralph D. Miller, Painter, 87, Dies. Ralph Davison Miller, 87 … of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive … The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago… Miller was born Sept. 7, 1858 at Cincinnati and came to Los Angeles in 1890 to live here hereafter... Read full biography
Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “Ralph D. Miller, Painter, 87, Dies. Ralph Davison Miller, 87 … of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive … The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago… Miller was born Sept. 7, 1858 at Cincinnati and came to Los Angeles in 1890 to live here hereafter except for a six-year period when he resided in the art colony at Carmel. He painted actively until a year and a half ago when arthritis compelled him to put aside his brushes. Miller began painting... Read full biography
Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “Ralph D. Miller, Painter, 87, Dies. Ralph Davison Miller, 87 … of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive … The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago… Miller was born Sept. 7, 1858 at Cincinnati and came to Los Angeles in 1890 to live here hereafter except for a six-year period when he resided in the art colony at Carmel. He painted actively until a year and a half ago when arthritis compelled him to put aside his brushes. Miller began painting seriously in 1880 in Kansas City. His works, which presented largely characteristic California scenery, the mountains, deserts and the sea in its varying moods, were exhibited in galleries all over the country. One honor in which he took pride came to him... Read full biography
Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. “Ralph D. Miller, Painter, 87, Dies. Ralph Davison Miller, 87 … of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive … The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago… Miller was born Sept. 7, 1858 at Cincinnati and came to Los Angeles in 1890 to live here hereafter except for a six-year period when he resided in the art colony at Carmel. He painted actively until a year and a half ago when arthritis compelled him to put aside his brushes. Miller began painting seriously in 1880 in Kansas City. His works, which presented largely characteristic California scenery, the mountains, deserts and the sea in its varying moods, were exhibited in galleries all over the country. One honor in which he took pride came to him in 1919 when the Gardena High School students, beginning their custo... Read full biography
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Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher.“Ralph D. Miller, Painter, 87, Dies. Ralph Davison Miller, 87 … of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive … The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago… Miller was born Sept. 7, 1858 at Cincinnati and came to Los Angeles in 1890 to live here hereafter except for a six-year period when he resided in the art colony at Carmel. He painted actively until a year and a half ago when arthritis compelled him to put aside his brushes.Miller began painting seriously in 1880 in Kansas City. His works, which presented largely characteristic California scenery, the mountains, deserts and the sea in its varying moods, were exhibited in galleries all over the country.One honor in which he took pride came to him in 1919 when the Gardena High School students, beginning their custom of selecting the best work by a California painter each year, chose one of Miller’s paintings…,”Source:Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17, 1945, p. 12.
Citation - and Additional material can be found in: Nancy Moure, “Central Coast Artist Visitors before 1960,” (PUBLICATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ART, VOL. 13, NO. VII), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2022.Biography from the Archives of askART
Born in Cincinnati, OH on Sept. 7, 1858. Miller lived in Kansas City for several years and specialized in still lifes during his early career. Except for criticism and pointers on improving his technique from George C. Bingham, he remained a self-taught painter. Miller lived in New Mexico in the 1880s and settled in Los Angeles in 1893.
He remained a resident of Los Angeles except for a period in the mid-1920s when he lived on the Monterey Peninsula. Traveling the California coast as far north as Mendocino, he painted coastals and landscapes, and made many painting excursions into the mountains and deserts of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Miller died in Los Angeles on Dec. 14, 1945. Exh: Kanst Gallery (LA), 1909; Steckel Gallery (LA), 1910, 1912; Blanchard Gallery (LA), 1911; Wilshire Gallery (LA), 1927. In: CHS; Santa Fe Railway; Santa Barbara Hist. Society; Gardena High School.Biography from the Archives of askART
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was a landscape and Indian genre painter, primarily self-taught except for some lessons from George Caleb Bingham. His work is held in the Santa Fe Railway Collection.
He lived in Kansas City several years and early in his career was a still life specialist. By the 1880s, he was painting in New Mexico; in 1893, he settled in Los Angeles, and by the early 1900s, he was in Arizona doing landscapes and Indian genre. He remained a Los Angeles resident except for living on the Monterey Peninsula in the mid-1920s. He continued painting excursions into the mountains and deserts of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.