Ruth Miller
Born in Columbia, Missouri, Miller began her formal art education at the University of Missouri. In the early 1950s she moved to New York City to study at the Art Student’s League, and through the context of the Tenth Street art scene of those first years in New York, she formed her lasting commitment to representational painting. She married her first husband Rowland Elzea in 1958 and moved to rural Pennsylvania, where she remained for over a decade; during this time she taught at the Philadelphia School of Art and Design. In 1972 she moved back to New York, and the following year was invited to take over a drawing class at the New York Studio School, beginning a rich, longstanding teaching relationship with the school. Miller married her second husband, painter Andrew Forge, in 1974, and moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1975.
“Ruth Miller has long been a presence and eminence to many painters. Her work is immediately seductive and giving; on every level of its conception, be it the subject, formal qualities, light or draughtsmanship, her work expresses a great bountifulness, graciousness and generosity. Her brush and eye are lyrical – in Ruth’s work, composition is not merely about placement or arrangement, it is composition in the fully realized musical sense we know. The eye is beckoned to indulge in and be delighted by an inquiring calligraphy which dances between line, plane and mass, and is rewarded with complex, fragrant and substantial color.”
- Israel Hershberg
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