Fine Antique Old Southwest Landscape Oil Painting, Ralph Davison Miller 1930s
This is a masterful and Fine Antique Old Southwest Landscape Oil Painting on Artist Board, by early 20th century California Plein Air Impressionist painter, Ralph Davison Miller 1858 - 1945. This piece depicts a lovely and evocative desert landscape scene, likely showing an image of Arizona or New Mexico. Tall Hoodoos rise above the arid plain, while deep lavender hued mountains are visible in the distance, and a vivid dark cloudscape looms overhead, with fluffy and highly detailed cloud cover. In the foreground, sparse desert shrubbery can be seen.
Signed in the lower right corner, while partially illegible: Ralph Davison Miller. This artwork likely dates to the 1930's - 1940's. Approximately 34 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches including frame.
Actual artwork is approximately 30 x 40 inches. Good condition for age, with various speckles of light paint loss throughout the painted surface, and moderate scuffing and edge wear to the antique gilded frame please see photos.
Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. Due to the large size of this piece, S&H costs will be unavoidably high. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! 1945 - Los Angeles, California.
Landscape, still life and marine painting. Ralph Davison Miller (1858 - 1945) was active/lived in California, Ohio.Ralph Miller is known for Landscape, still life and marine painting. Provided by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Of 2035 Laughlin Park Drive. The artist broke his hip in a fall a month ago.
7, 1858 at Cincinnati and came to Los Angeles in 1890 to live here hereafter except for a six-year period when he resided in the art colony at Carmel. He painted actively until a year and a half ago when arthritis compelled him to put aside his brushes. Miller began painting seriously in 1880 in Kansas City.
His works, which presented largely characteristic California scenery, the mountains, deserts and the sea in its varying moods, were exhibited in galleries all over the country. One honor in which he took pride came to him in 1919 when the Gardena High School students, beginning their custom of selecting the best work by a California painter each year, chose one of Miller's paintings.. Citation - and Additional material can be found in: Nancy Moure, "Central Coast Artist Visitors before 1960, " PUBLICATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ART, VOL. Born in Cincinnati, OH on Sept. 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. Exh: Kanst Gallery (LA), 1909; Steckel Gallery (LA), 1910, 1912; Blanchard Gallery (LA), 1911; Wilshire Gallery (LA), 1927.
In: CHS; Santa Fe Railway; Santa Barbara Hist. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was a landscape and Indian genre painter, primarily self-taught except for some lessons from George Caleb Bingham. His work is held in the Santa Fe Railway Collection.
He lived in Kansas City several years and early in his career was a still life specialist. By the 1880s, he was painting in New Mexico; in 1893, he settled in Los Angeles, and by the early 1900s, he was in Arizona doing landscapes and Indian genre. He remained a Los Angeles resident except for living on the Monterey Peninsula in the mid-1920s. He continued painting excursions into the mountains and deserts of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.