Miller, Ralph Davison

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Miller, Ralph Davison

Miller, Ralph Davison (1858-1945).

Near Sierra Madre by Ralph Davison Miller (1858-1945)

20" x 30", Oil/Canvas, Signed Lower Right

Est.: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold by John Moran Auctioneers for $8,050 on 6/20/2006
ARTIST WORLD RECORD

Painter.

Born in Cincinnati, OH on Sept. 7, 1858.

Miller lived in Kansas City for several years and specialized in still lifes during his early career.

Except for criticism and pointers on improving his technique from George C. Bingham, he remained a self-taught painter.

Miller lived in New Mexico in the 1880s and settled in Los Angeles in 1893. He remained a resident of Los Angeles except for a period in the mid-1920s when he lived on the Monterey Peninsula.

Traveling the California coast as far north as Mendocino, he painted coastals and landscapes, and made many painting excursions into the mountains and deserts of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

Miller died in Los Angeles on Dec. 14, 1945.

Exh: Steckel Gallery (LA), 1910; Blanchard Gallery (LA), 1911; Wilshire Gallery (LA), 1927.

In: CHS; Santa Fe Railway; Santa Barbara Hist. Society. 11 SCA; AAW; Sam; International Studio, July 1918; NY Times, 12-17-1945 (obit).

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