Edgar Miller
American, born 1899
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INV-1857
Edgar Miller
American, born 18991933
watercolordrawings (visual works)
Date
1933
Medium
Gouache with incising and fingerprints, on masonite, prepared with a white ground
Dimensions
50.9 × 60.9 cm (20 1/16 × 24 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize
Attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before and after the First World War, Miller described himself as “conspicuously absent—I wasn’t a good student.” Yet Miller continued to develop his artistic abilities, working in a variety of media such as sculpture, stained glass, painting, woodcarving, and tile. Despite this versatility, however, Miller wrote in 1936 that he was “just barely beginning to find [himself].” This painting was awarded the Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize in 1934 at the 13th Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings, and Monotypes, and the work entered the Art Institute’s collection. Chicago Tribune art critic Eleanor Jewett described this work in her exhibition review as an “Impression-istic Easter card.”
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