Richard E. Miller
Time for a bit of sun!
Like many of his American contemporaries, Richard E. Miller studied at the Académie Julian, which was a private art school for painting and sculpture in Paris, and spent time at famous Giverny, the site of Claude Monet’s country home. Sunlight is one of a group of paintings depicting scenes of women outdoors or in sunlit interiors. The light filling the room is diffused evenly over the models, objects, and windows, creating a variety of decorative patterns. In his interest in painting as non-narrative and his technical experiments with thickly applied color over thin layers of pigment, Miller is not dissimilar to one of his many influences, Édouard Vuillard.
P.S. Did you know that Académie Julian had for some time a female director? Meet Madame Amélie Beaury-Saurel!
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