Born in New York City, Barse Miller became a painter and muralist, studying art first from his mother, Susan Barse Miller (1875-1935), an academically trained artist. At age eleven, he began studies... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Barse Miller became a painter and muralist, studying art first from his mother, Susan Barse Miller (1875-1935), an academically trained artist. At age eleven, he began studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Barse Miller became a painter and muralist, studying art first from his mother, Susan Barse Miller (1875-1935), an academically trained artist. At age eleven, he began studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Henry Snell and Hugh Breckenridge. He also studied in Paris and then from 1924 taught drawing at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and did murals for the WPA. In the 1920s, he joined the California... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Barse Miller became a painter and muralist, studying art first from his mother, Susan Barse Miller (1875-1935), an academically trained artist. At age eleven, he began studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Henry Snell and Hugh Breckenridge. He also studied in Paris and then from 1924 taught drawing at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and did murals for the WPA. In the 1920s, he joined the California Watercolor Society and is best known there for Los Angeles area scenes. He became a World War II special artist- correspondent for Life magazine, and was attached to General MacArthur's Pacific headquarters as chief of the Combat Art Section.... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Barse Miller became a painter and muralist, studying art first from his mother, Susan Barse Miller (1875-1935), an academically trained artist. At age eleven, he began studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Henry Snell and Hugh Breckenridge. He also studied in Paris and then from 1924 taught drawing at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and did murals for the WPA. In the 1920s, he joined the California Watercolor Society and is best known there for Los Angeles area scenes. He became a World War II special artist- correspondent for Life magazine, and was attached to General MacArthur's Pacific headquarters as chief of the Combat Art Section. Following the war, he taught in New York at the Art Center School and Queens College but maintained a st... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
California Scene Paintings
2013
McClelland, Gordon T. and McClelland, Austin D.
215 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Crystal Cove Cottages: Island in Time on the California Coast
2005
Steen, Karen E., Laura Davick and Meriam Braselle
159 pages (color)
Everyday Life in California, Regional Watercolors, 1930-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
California Heritage Museum
56 pages (color)
California Holiday: The E Gene Crain Collection (Laguna Art Museum) (Exhibition catalog)