Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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 Miller"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller, c. 1921

$1,700

"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures. ...

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1920s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Paul Resika"Untitled" Paul Resika, Modernist, Black and White, Abstracted Composition, circa 1990s

$1,500

H 23.5 in W 16.25 in

"Untitled" Paul Resika, Modernist, Black and White, Abstracted Composition

By Paul Resika

Located in New York, NY

Paul Resika Untitled Signed lower right Etching on wove paper 10 1/2 x 6 inches Paul Resika (born 1928, New York, New York) is primarily recognized for his artwork featuring the di...

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1990s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Agnes MillsHand Colored Etching by WPA Artist Agnes Mills, 1982, Unique, 1982

$750

H 19.5 in W 17 in D 0.75 in

Hand Colored Etching by WPA Artist Agnes Mills, 1982, Unique

Located in New York, NY

Agnes Mills (American, 1915-2008) Guignol Intermezzo, 1982 Hand colored etching (UNIQUE) Sight: 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. Framed: 19 1/2 x 17 x 3/4 in. Titled lower right Inscribed "AP" bo...

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1980s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Walt KuhnAdvice, 1915

$800

Advice

By Walt Kuhn

Located in New York, NY

Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Advice, etching and drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower left. In generally good condition but obviously a proof impression, with marg...

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1910s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Drypoint

Kent HagermanKent Hagerman, (United States Air Force, Fairchild XC-120 Packplane), 1950-52

$400

H 6.25 in W 10.25 in

Kent Hagerman, (United States Air Force, Fairchild XC-120 Packplane)

By Kent Hagerman

Located in New York, NY

Kent Hagerman was an amazing draftsman who managed to get fantastic detail into his work while showing the environment and atmosphere. This print captures the moment a 'pod' is bein...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Knox MartinPulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer Portrait Etching Line Drawing, c.1975

$700

H 26 in W 19.75 in

Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer Portrait Etching Line Drawing

By Knox Martin

Located in Surfside, FL

Signed. Numbered line etching Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and libera...

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1970s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Bernard SandersBernard Sanders, (Abstraction with Sun), 1925, about

$400

H 5.13 in W 3.75 in

Bernard Sanders, (Abstraction with Sun)

By Bernard Sanders

Located in New York, NY

Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was a master of minimalist prints. In several I've posted the subject is really atmosphere and tension. This could be r...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Bernard SandersBernard Sanders, Portrait of Woman (with Bun), about 1925, 1925

$450

H 7.25 in W 7 in

Bernard Sanders, Portrait of Woman (with Bun), about 1925

By Bernard Sanders

Located in New York, NY

Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was an extremely gifted portrait artist. and a master at showing us the sitter's age. This is clearly not a young woman. She's, well, early middle age? ...

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1920s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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John Taylor ArmsSan Marino (Sketch), 1933

$950

H 7.01 in W 5.01 in

San Marino (Sketch)

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

A demonstration print executed in front of a live audience in New York City in 1933. Etching on cream laid paper, 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (178 x 127 mm); sheet 11 7/8 x 8 3/16 inches (...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Etching

Donald Shaw MacLaughlanChicago, Michigan Avenue n°2 - Original etching, c. 1931, 1931

$352

H 19.69 in W 14.97 in

Chicago, Michigan Avenue n°2 - Original etching, c. 1931

By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Located in Paris, IDF

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan Chicago : Michigan Avenue n°1, c. 1931 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 38 x 50 cm (c. 15 x 20 in) V...

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1930s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Lilya Vorobey"E" Albert Einstein, Modern Portrait, 1989

$875

H 19.75 in W 12.94 in D 0.13 in

"E" Albert Einstein, Modern Portrait

By Lilya Vorobey

Located in Soquel, CA

Albert Einstein "E", a color collotype print, watercolor modern portrait by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th C). Titled "E" lower left, signed and dated "L. Vorobey '89" lower right. On...

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1980s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Color, Etching

Lilya Vorobey"Albert", Albert Einstein Portrait Silhouette, 1989

$799

H 19.75 in W 12.94 in D 0.13 in

"Albert", Albert Einstein Portrait Silhouette

By Lilya Vorobey

Located in Soquel, CA

Albert Einstein silhouetted portrait, a collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Unsigned. From a collection of her works. Image, 9.75"H x 5.88"W. Full Sheet...

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1980s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Color, Etching

Lilya VorobeyPortrait of Albert Einstein with Multi-Colored Wires, 1989

$875

H 19.75 in W 12.94 in D 0.13 in

Portrait of Albert Einstein with Multi-Colored Wires

By Lilya Vorobey

Located in Soquel, CA

Portrait of Albert Einstein, a color collotype print, watercolor with electric wires, by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "L. Vorobey '89" lower right. On mat...

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1980s American Modern Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Wire

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Kenneth Hayes MillerThe Socialites

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H 2.88 in W 3.88 in

The Socialites

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in Wiscasset, ME

Kenneth Hayes Miller was born in Oneida, New York in 1876. He studied at the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design (formerly the New York School of Art and the Chase S...

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1920s Realist Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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Kenneth Hayes MillerShoppers Leaving the Shop, 1929

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Shoppers Leaving the Shop

By Kenneth Hayes Miller

Located in New York, NY

Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876-1952), Shoppers Leaving the Shop (or, Leaving the Shop), etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Associated American Artists 87, fourth s...

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1920s American Realist Kenneth Hayes Miller Prints and Multiples

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