
Art Institute of Chicago
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Richard E. Miller · c. 1913
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Pasadena, CA; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1915; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1915.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4752/american-painting-and-sculpture-28th-annual"><em>Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, Nov. 16, 1915–Jan. 2, 1916, cat. 222.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 27.
- Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5706/garfield-park-art-galleries-exhibition-of-greek-sculptures-and-american-paintings"><em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 15.
- Champaign, University of Illinois, Architecture Building Gallery, <em>American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Dec. 3–29, 1939, no cat.
- Kalamazoo, MI, Civic Theatre, <em>Paintings from the Friends of American Art Collection,</em> Dec. 27, 1944–Feb. 27, 1945, no cat. (organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Art).
- St. Louis Artists' Guild, <em>Richard E. Miller Memorial Exhibtion</em>, –Feb. 6, 1957, no cat.
- St. Louis Art Museum, <em>Richard E. Miller, American Impressionist</em>, Sept. 9–Oct. 26, 1986, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- <em>Catalogue of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1915), n.p., cat. 222.
- “Coming Exhibitions”, <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 10, no. 1 (1916): 122–24 (ill.), <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4102633">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102633</a>.
- <em>Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1914–1915</em>, 5th ed. (1916), 23, 92, 94, 183.
- George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 44, cat. 405, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952</a>.
- Robert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 46, cat. 405, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578</a>.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 27.
- Robert J. Dunham, <em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat. 15.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 130, cat. 74 (ill.).
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