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1904 Chicago, Illinois - 1978 Santa Barbara, California. Known for: Easel and mural painting, sculpture, portraits, genre, figure, landscape.
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her father bought her a correspondence course in art basics from the Kansas City Art Institute, which she eagerly completed. The family assumed that after Ruth finished high school, she would attend Vassar... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her father bought her a correspondence course in art basics from the Kansas City Art Institute, which she eagerly completed. The family assumed that after Ruth finished high school, she would attend Vassar College, as her mother and sisters before her had done, but Ruth had what she later referred to as “a tiny little nervous breakdown,” which convinced her parents to forget Vassar and send her directly to art school. In 1922, the family were... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her father bought her a correspondence course in art basics from the Kansas City Art Institute, which she eagerly completed. The family assumed that after Ruth finished high school, she would attend Vassar College, as her mother and sisters before her had done, but Ruth had what she later referred to as “a tiny little nervous breakdown,” which convinced her parents to forget Vassar and send her directly to art school. In 1922, the family were residents of Pasadena, California, and Ruth began her studies at the Stickney Memorial Art School in Los Angeles, California, and continued at the... Read full biography
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Keywords (41)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Fountain Sculpture
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Desert Landscape
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
- •Social Realism
- •Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Korea
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
- •South America
- •Spain and/or Portugal
Art Association
- •California Art Club-
- •Pasadena Society of Artists
Art Teacher
- •Charles Hawthorne
Art School
- •Academia Belle Arti, Florence, Italy, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
- •Kansas City Art Institute, Student
- •Otis Art Institute, (Otis College of Art & Design) Student
- •Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
- •Stickney Memorial Art School of Art, Student
- •Stickney School of Art-Teacher
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Mural Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •California Art Club
- •Pasadena Society of Artists-
- •Women Painters of the West-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of State Fair
- •California State Fair