At the Window
Alternate TitleParis Morning
Artist
Richard Edward Miller
(American, 1875 - 1943)
Dateca. 1910-1912
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 39 1/2 x 32 inches (100.33 x 81.28 cm)
Framed: 46 x 35 3/8 inches (116.84 x 89.85 cm)
Framed: 46 x 35 3/8 inches (116.84 x 89.85 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harry G. Woodward Jr., niece of the artist
Object numberF96-14
SignedSigned lower right: Miller
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA woman in a kimono-like dressing gown stands sideways to an open window and dreamily stares outside to a garden in full bloom. She leans her arms on a small table on which sits a bowl with flowers. A chair can be seen in the lower left corner. White gauze curtains cover the windows but light streams through them, highlighting the woman and tabletop. brightly lit and intense.Gallery LabelRichard Miller's At the Window features the artist's favorite subject-an interior with a solitary, pensive woman brightly illuminated by sparkling daylight from a nearby window. The St. Louis native painted the canvas in Paris, where he spent 15 years beginning in 1899. The painting's vibrant palette, geometrical structure and decorative quality reveal the impact of the artist's French experience. In the first decade of the 20th century, Miller came in contact not only with Impressionism, but also with the more avant-garde artists of the Nabis and Fauve groups, whose loose brushwork and rich, thickly painted surfaces Miller adopted. Even so, Miller's early training in drawing remains visible in the careful, tightly rendered description of the woman's face.
Exhibition of Paintings by Richard E. Miller, exh. cat. (New York:
Macbeth Gallery, 1912), unpaginated; “Some of the Striking Pictures to Be Seen in This Year’s Exhibition at the Pennsylvania
Academy,” New York Times, 16 February 1913, 55; Catalogue of
the One Hundred and Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, 1913), 37; Catalogue of the Thirty-
first Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture,
exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1918), unpaginated;
Paintings, Sculptures and Prints in the Department of Fine Arts
Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, 1926), 65; Half
a Century of American Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of
Chicago, 1939), 35; Richard E. Miller: An Impression and Appreciation (St. Louis: Longmire Fund, 1968), unpaginated; Bruce
Weber, The Giverny Luminists: Frieseke, Miller and Their Circle,
exh. cat. (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1995), 55, 63; Julie
Aronson, “American Painting Donated,” Calendar (Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art), November 1996, 2; Henry Adams, Margaret C.
Conrads, and Annegret Hoberg, eds., Albert Bloch: The American
Blue Rider, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, in association with
the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1997), 26.
Macbeth Gallery, 1912), unpaginated; “Some of the Striking Pictures to Be Seen in This Year’s Exhibition at the Pennsylvania
Academy,” New York Times, 16 February 1913, 55; Catalogue of
the One Hundred and Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, 1913), 37; Catalogue of the Thirty-
first Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture,
exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1918), unpaginated;
Paintings, Sculptures and Prints in the Department of Fine Arts
Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, 1926), 65; Half
a Century of American Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of
Chicago, 1939), 35; Richard E. Miller: An Impression and Appreciation (St. Louis: Longmire Fund, 1968), unpaginated; Bruce
Weber, The Giverny Luminists: Frieseke, Miller and Their Circle,
exh. cat. (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1995), 55, 63; Julie
Aronson, “American Painting Donated,” Calendar (Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art), November 1996, 2; Henry Adams, Margaret C.
Conrads, and Annegret Hoberg, eds., Albert Bloch: The American
Blue Rider, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, in association with
the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1997), 26.
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