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1864 Kansas City, Missouri - 1953 Kansas City, Missouri. Known for: Genre, portrait, town-landscape painting.
Born in Kansas City on April 5, 1864, George Van Horn Millett was named after Robert Van Horn, founder and editor of the Kansas City Journal as well as a Kansas City mayor, congressman and Civil War... Read full biography
Born in Kansas City on April 5, 1864, George Van Horn Millett was named after Robert Van Horn, founder and editor of the Kansas City Journal as well as a Kansas City mayor, congressman and Civil War militia leader. Van Horn was a patron of the artist's father, Henry Shirley Millett, who was known... Read full biography
Born in Kansas City on April 5, 1864, George Van Horn Millett was named after Robert Van Horn, founder and editor of the Kansas City Journal as well as a Kansas City mayor, congressman and Civil War militia leader. Van Horn was a patron of the artist's father, Henry Shirley Millett, who was known as "printer to the pioneers.". Millett studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from 1886 - 1890. He later returned to Europe for a year of travel and study. He spent most of 1893 in... Read full biography
Born in Kansas City on April 5, 1864, George Van Horn Millett was named after Robert Van Horn, founder and editor of the Kansas City Journal as well as a Kansas City mayor, congressman and Civil War militia leader. Van Horn was a patron of the artist's father, Henry Shirley Millett, who was known as "printer to the pioneers.". Millett studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from 1886 - 1890. He later returned to Europe for a year of travel and study. He spent most of 1893 in Holland, where he developed a fondness for the Dutch landscape. While a student at the Royal Academy, Millett earned a silver medal for his drawing of a seated peasant woman. George Van Horn Millett (1864-1953), who took "Van" as his first name, is often... Read full biography
Born in Kansas City on April 5, 1864, George Van Horn Millett was named after Robert Van Horn, founder and editor of the Kansas City Journal as well as a Kansas City mayor, congressman and Civil War militia leader. Van Horn was a patron of the artist's father, Henry Shirley Millett, who was known as "printer to the pioneers.". Millett studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from 1886 - 1890. He later returned to Europe for a year of travel and study. He spent most of 1893 in Holland, where he developed a fondness for the Dutch landscape. While a student at the Royal Academy, Millett earned a silver medal for his drawing of a seated peasant woman. George Van Horn Millett (1864-1953), who took "Van" as his first name, is often referred to simply as "Van Millett." He was founder and first president of the Art Club, a... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Germany Before 1900
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
- •Missouri River Valley Before 1900
Art School
- •German Academies Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago