Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

American, 1876-1952

Kenneth Hayes Miller is best known as a teacher and founder of what became known as the Fourteenth Street school. While paintings of middle-class female shoppers from his mature period are his best known, he had a long, distinctly different early phase. Miller was born in the utopian community of Oneida and studied art in the 1890s at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and later at the Art Students League with several prominent, traditional, mural painters, such as Kenyon Cox and H. Siddons Mowbray. Works from his first sustained period of painting are mostly of nude figures set in idealized, romantic landscapes. These poetic, somewhat symbolic paintings, similar to the art of his contemporaries Arthur B. Davies and Bryson Burroughs, were largely inspired by Albert Pinkham Ryder, an artist Miller admired and befriended. After World War I Miller turned to realism. Like the Ash Can school painters, he became a delineator of the ordinary pedestrian, but unlike them was fascinated with the human figure as a vehicle for plastic interpretation. His painting style became less atmospheric as he brightened his palette and delineated objects more clearly. His depictions of robust female shoppers in groups, pairs, or alone established his reputation in the 1920s and 1930s. He also continued to paint the female nude but placed the figure in interior settings and rendered it as a more sensuous and real body than he had in his earlier idealized works. Throughout his career Miller was also interested in etching and sometimes repeated his painted images in prints. After a trip to Europe in 1900 Miller began a long teaching career, first at the Chase School of Art, and when that dissolved, in 1911 he began his more than forty-year association with the Art Students League. His numerous students there included Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Isabel Bishop, Arnold Blanch, Patrick Henry Bruce, Minna Citron, John McCrady, Thelma Cudlipp, Horace Day, Dorothy Eaton, Arnold Friedman, Lloyd Goodrich, Josephine Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Edward Middleton Manigault, Reginald Marsh, George L.K. Morris, Walter Tandy Murch, Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, George Tooker, Russel Wright, Albert Pels, William C. Palmer, Molly Luce, and Helen Winslow Durkee. In his teaching Miller stressed the importance of learning from the art of the past, in particular that of the Renaissance. He was also instrumental in reviving old-master techniques such as casein and tempera painting.

Artist: Kenneth Hayes Miller

Kenneth Hayes MillerPortrait of a Woman in Thought, American Impressionist, 1924, 1924

$9,500

Portrait of a Woman in Thought, American Impressionist, 1924

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in Miami, FL

Signed and dated 1924 upper right Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work. Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso Original period frame Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce

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1920s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

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Oil

Lu HaskewTake Me Home, 12x8" oil, framed, 1999

$600

H 19 in W 16 in D 2 in

Take Me Home, 12x8" oil, framed

By Lu Haskew

Located in Loveland, CO

"Take me Home" by Lu Haskew Oil 19x16" framed, 12x8" image size Signed lower left A young child very apparently ready to go home from their intense yet cute look. The child is weari...

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Early 2000s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

William John HennessyPortrait of the Artist's Daughters, American Impressionism Painting, Signed, Circa 1880

$7,046

H 13 in W 9.26 in

Portrait of the Artist's Daughters, American Impressionism Painting, Signed

By William John Hennessy

Located in PARIS, FR

William John Hennessy Thomastown 1839 - Rudgwick 1917 Portrait of the Artist's Daughters Circa 1880 Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard Signed bottom left 33 x 23.5 cm canvas 44 x ...

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1880s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Suchitra BhosleGratitude

$3,500

H 18 in W 14 in

Gratitude

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Lone figure with red

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil

Suchitra BhosleMelancholy in White

$3,500

H 16 in W 12 in

Melancholy in White

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Reclining figure with flowers

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Suchitra BhosleRosa

$4,800

H 20 in W 16 in

Rosa

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Interior Portrait

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Lu HaskewJohn Fishing, 30x24" oil, framed, 1965

$810

H 34 in W 28 in D 2 in

John Fishing, 30x24" oil, framed

By Lu Haskew

Located in Loveland, CO

John Fishing by Lu Haskew Oil 30x24" image size Figurative Portrait of a man with fishing pole. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu considered it a must to work with live models once or twice...

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Early 2000s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil

Clyde Steadman"Lots Daughter" Oil Painting, 2022

$1,750

H 18 in W 18 in

"Lots Daughter" Oil Painting

By Clyde Steadman

Located in Denver, CO

Clyde Steadman's "Lots Daughter" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of individuals in an interior setting.

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Clyde Steadman"Following?" Oil Painting, 2022

$750

H 16 in W 8 in

"Following?" Oil Painting

By Clyde Steadman

Located in Denver, CO

Clyde Steadman's "Following?" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto portrait of a female model ascending a staircase.

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Ryan Morse"Adrift" (2023), Original Impressionist Abstract Female Portrait, Oil Painting, 2023

$2,600

H 30 in W 24 in

"Adrift" (2023), Original Impressionist Abstract Female Portrait, Oil Painting

By Ryan Morse

Located in Denver, CO

Ryan Morse's (US based) "Adrift" is an original, handmade oil painting created in 2023 that is unframed but ready to hang. Artist Bio: Ryan Morse is a Denver based freelance artist ...

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Suchitra Bhosle"Rhythmic Silk, " Oil painting, 2023

$4,500

H 16 in W 12 in

"Rhythmic Silk, " Oil painting

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Suchitra Bhosle's "Rhythmic Silk" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark-haired woman on a red chair with a red silk top and flowing white skirt. About the Artis...

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

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Oil, Board

Ryan MorsePiercing

$400

H 5 in W 5 in

Piercing

By Ryan Morse

Located in Denver, CO

Portrait with Piercing eyes

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Suchitra BhosleGratitude II

$2,500

H 12 in W 9 in

Gratitude II

By Suchitra Bhosle

Located in Denver, CO

Lone figure with dark background

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2010s American Impressionist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Oil

Previously Available Items

Kenneth Hayes Miller"Swimming Hole" WPA 20th Century American Scene Realism Modernism Gay Figurative, c. 1930s

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H 38 in W 37 in D 2 in

"Swimming Hole" WPA 20th Century American Scene Realism Modernism Gay Figurative

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in New York, NY

"Swimming Hole" WPA 20th Century American Scene Realism Modernism Gay Figurative. Signed lower right 29 x 28 inches. Provenance: Collection of Seymour S...

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1930s American Realist Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kenneth Hayes Miller"The Skaters" WPA American Winter Scene Mid-Century Modernism Figure Skating, 1942

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H 33 in W 38 in

"The Skaters" WPA American Winter Scene Mid-Century Modernism Figure Skating

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in New York, NY

WPA American Winter Scene Mid-Century Modernism Figure Skating Olympics Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876 - 1952) "The Skaters (Variations on a Pattern by Sign...

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1940s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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