Средство даже от Великой депрессии...

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Miller, Kenneth Hayes (American, 1876-1952)

Случайно наткнулась на работы этого жудожника, к сожалению удалось найти их не так много, кроме того, многиеиз них есть только в черно-белом варианте. С другой стороны, художник иногда рисовал только карандашом, поэтому даже живописные картины у него хорошо смотрятся в черно-белом виде. Большую часть своих работ Миллер посвятил дамам во время прогулки по магазинам.

Miller began depicting women shopping before the Depression and continued throughout the 1930s. "Women shoppers is a theme that has always interested me. The particular aspects of shopping activities, of life going on, of the supplying of material necessities -- lies on the surface; in addition to this there is the motive of allure in personal adornment, as well as in the furnishing of the home, which may give a finishing touch of the faintly exotic, of the romantic, to the subject. Further, it takes place in public and can be freely observed."

Department Store Shoppers, 1930

Glove Counter 1937

Three Girls Meeting

Shopper 1928

Woman with an Umbrella , 1928.

Afternoon on the Avenue, 1932

Woman with Packages

Casual Meeting , 1928

Finishing Touches

The Shoppers 1920

О художнике

A leading proponent of urban genre painting and an influential teacher of numerous artists represented in the Collection, including Marjorie Phillips, George Bellows, and Yasuo Kunyoshi, Kenneth Hayes Miller was born in Oneida, New York in 1876. Four years later, in 1880, his family moved to New York City, where he attended the Horace Mann School. In 1892, Miller enrolled in painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League and studied under Kenyon Cox. He then studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art, where he became an instructor in 1899. The same year, Miller traveled to Europe for the first time. After the closing of the New York School of Art in 1911, Miller began teaching at the Art Students League, where he remained until 1951. While his early works are romantic depictions of nudes in dreamlike landscapes, reminiscent of the work of his close friend Albert Pinkham Ryder, and often alluding to Renaissance compositions, Miller's later works concentrate on contemporary themes such as consumer culture, for example lively scenes of women shopping in New York.

He exhibited four works in the 1913 Armory Show and had his first one-person exhibition in 1916 at the Macbeth Gallery, New York. In 1929 he was included in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition of works by American artists, "Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans." He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1942, an Academician two years later, and a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1947. Miller died in New York in 1952.

Comments

[mlle-anais.livejournal.com]

Какая женщина с лисой на шее и зонтиком!
Очень понравились. Сразу чувствуется атмосфера и настроение. И вообще направление мыслей этих американок с пухлыми ножками :)
Спасибо.

[kavery.livejournal.com]

Да, атмосфера передана очень хорошо

[aljulja.livejournal.com]

Добрый день!!! Спасибо. Какое спокойствие на лицах этих дам, кажется, никакого стресса в жизни...

[kavery.livejournal.com]

Да, для них такие прогулки - дело обычное :)

[mumrik-snussi.livejournal.com]

Какие дамочки прелестные))) С горжеткой и зонтиком хороша.

[kavery.livejournal.com]

Да, дамы весьма милые.Мне у них шляпки очень нравятся.

[black-queen.livejournal.com]

Очень милая подборка, спасибо ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_m_u_/]

Рисунки его даже больше нравятся!

[kavery.livejournal.com]

Да, мне тоже показалось, что он больше график.

[valeryanna.livejournal.com]

О, узнаю моду тех времен! Особенно воротники, выглядящие как живые животные, впечатлили!

[b-a-n-s-h-e-e.livejournal.com]

Спасибо, замечательные картины. Дамы такие кругленькие, Кустодиев вспоминается.

[kavery.livejournal.com]

Согласна. Типажи очень кустодиевски. Ну да и слой общества тоже - купечество. :)