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Edgar Miller1933
- Attribution
- Edgar Miller American, born 1899
- Medium
- Gouache with incising and fingerprints, on masonite, prepared with a white ground
- Physical dimensions
- 50.9 × 60.9 cm (20 1/16 × 24 in.)
- Credit line
- Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize
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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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