1904 - 1973
Miller was a native of New York City who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy and the National Academy. He also had private instruction under Henry Snell and Hugh Breckenbridge. At eighteen he received and had renewed a Cresson Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy that enabled him to paint and study in Europe. His reputation is largely based on watercolors, but he also engaged in mural painting. During the Second World War Miller was officer in charge of the Combat Art Section of the Army Engineers in the Southwest Pacific theater of war and decorated with the Legion of Merit in 1945. He received medals for his watercolors from the California Art Club, the Los Angeles County Museum, the American Watercolor Society, the Santa Barbara Art Museum, and the National Academy. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946. Miller taught at many art schools and colleges, including Queens College, New York. His work is widely distributed in museums and private collections.
