Description: Earle Miller (American 1907–1991) Ephrata Cloisters - Exterior No. 1, 1942LithographImage: 10 x 15 3/4 inches (25.4 x 40 cm) Sheet: 12 x 18 3/8 inches (30.5 x 46.7 cm) From AskArt, Charles Earle Miller was born on 6 November 1907 on his family’s 247 acre estate, in Downingtown, East Brandywine Township, PA. Little is known about his education and formal training in art, but his passion for art must have origins in the family tradition as it was to become the sole focus of his life. Sometime in the early 1940s he met and married Henrietta Myers, an accomplished artist in painting and sculpture. Together they managed the family estate which in 1956 was incorporated as the Rock Raymond Farm. During these years, Earle (he did not like the name Charles) and Henrietta focused on creating art. Henrietta, who painted under the name Peter Miller, was well known in New York art circles, and had numerous successful exhibitions. Earle created a number of truly remarkable lithographs in the 1930s and then focused on sculpture. Both Earle and Henrietta were represented by the Hahn Gallery in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia and the Kennedy Gallery in New York. Earle and Henrietta had no children. They used their significant affluence to purchase properties and amass a world-class art collection in Modern Art. The Miller Art Collection included several major Joan Miro paintings, including Still Life with Old Shoes (1937) and Still Life with Toy Horse (1920), and several Alex Calder paintings. Sometime in the 1930s, the couple purchased a property near Santa Fe, New Mexico where they spent time with the lively artist community in that place and time. The New Mexico exposure was reflected in the Southwest influence in their respective art. In 1992, Roslyn Hahn of the Hahn Gallery during an interview for the Philadelphia Inquirer commented on Earle Miller’s legacy. Hahn said lithographs Earle Miller did in the 1930s were of such fine quality that he should be ranked with the best of a group of artists who belonged to what has come to be known as the WPA School. “His work was right up there with the best of them … He never got the recognition he deserved.” The evocative power of Earl Miller’s lithographs rival the very best of the WPA body of work in the medium. As the Miller’s approached old age in the late 1980s, they set out to protect the Rock Raymond Farm from development by donating the property to the Brandywine Conservancy. Earle died in February 1991, but Henrietta continued with the family layers to complete the gift, then worth $4.35 million. To further protect the Farm, Henrietta purchased and donated an additional 230 acres to the Natural Lands Trust as a buffer zone. The Rock Raymond Farm survives intact to this day as a model farm. Earle Miller’s lithographs, though extremely rare, survive in some of the finest museums in America.
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Artist: Earle Miller (American 1907–1991)
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1942
Signed: Yes
Style: Realism
Features: Signed
Production Technique: Lithography
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
