Charles Henry Miller

For other people named Charles Miller, see Charles Miller (disambiguation).

Charles Henry Miller
Charles Henry Miller, N.A.
Born	March 20, 1842(1842-03-20) Long Island, New York
Died	January 21, 1922(1922-01-21) (aged 79)
Nationality	American
Field	Painting
Training	Bavarian Royal Academy

Charles Henry Miller, N.A. (March 20, 1842 – January 21, 1922) was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island, New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) called him "The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island."^[1]

Biography

Miller was educated at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, and graduated in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Institute in 1864. Before his graduation, he had occasionally painted pictures, and in 1860 he exhibited The Challenge Accepted at the National Academy of Design, in New York City.^[2]

He lived in Queens at the summer estate originally purchased by his parents, Jacob (1803–1874) and Jane Taylor Miller (1806–1895), named Queenslawn. He went abroad in 1864 and again in 1867, and was a pupil in the Bavarian Royal Academy at Munich under the instruction of Adolf Lier.^[2]

The death of his father, a wealthy architect and builder, and the large inheritance received by Miller shortly thereafter, allowed him to paint at leisure for the remainder of his long life. The majority of his oil paintings depict Long Island subjects, especially those in and around Queens Village. Fed up with the development of the eastern part of Queens (present-day Nassau County) he began to spend part of his summers in East Marion, Long Island, NY, c. 1910. Here he spent his time sketching and painting the surrounding areas.

In 1885 he published The Philosophy of Art in America using the pseudonym Carl De Muldor (he was descended from the De Muldor family). Miller was also the founder, in 1910, of the Queens Borough Allied Arts & Crafts Society. A New York City public school, Queens P.S. 33, was once named for him.^[3] He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1873 and academician in 1875, and was president of the New York Art Club in 1879 and of the American Committee at the Munich International Exposition in 1883.

Awards

Miller received the gold medal that was awarded by the Massachusetts Charitable Association in 1878, and another at the World's Exposition in New Orleans in 1885.^[2]

Exhibition history

During his lifetime Miller was very well exhibited. The following list includes many his known exhibitions, though there are probably many more:

• National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1860–61, 1865–67, 1870–1921
• Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn, NY, 1872–84, 1891–92
• Artist’s Fund Society, New York, NY, 1874 (exhibition & sale), 1886 (exhibition & sale)
• Century Association, New York, NY, (1874–1917)
• Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, 1876 (prize)
• Society of American Artists, New York, NY, (1878–1882)
• Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston, MA, 1878 (prize)
• Paris International Exposition, Paris, France, 1878, 1889
• American Water Color Society Exhibition, New York, NY, 1879
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia , PA, 1879–99
• Boston Art Club, Boston, MA, 1880-1907 (prize)
• Union League Club, New York, NY, 1880
• Lotos Club, New York, NY, 1880, 1896, 1899–1900, 1906
• Salons of Paris, Paris, France, 1882
• International Exhibition, Munich, Germany, 1883 (president & exhibitor)
• New Orleans Exposition, New Orleans, LA, 1885 (prize)
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1888–89, 1891, 1894–98, 1904
• Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1889 (exhibition & sale)
• World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, 1892
• Frederick A. Chapman Gallery, New York, NY, 1898 (solo)
• Miller Studio Exhibition, New York, NY, 1901
• Brooklyn Museum Opening Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, 1902
• Silo Galleries, New York, NY, 1902 (Jane Miller estate, exhibition & sale)
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1908
• American Red Cross Exhibition at the American Art Galleries, New York, NY, 1922 (exhibition & sale)
• DaFalco Art Gallery, New York, NY, c.1922 (exhibition & sale).^[4]

Holding institutions

• Brigham Young University Art Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
• Brooklyn Institute Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
• Democratic Club, New York, NY
• Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
• Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
• Nassau County Historical Society, Garden City, NY
• Nassau County Museum of Art, Glen Cove, NY
• National Academy of Design, New York, NY
• Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
• Republican Club, New York, NY
• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.^[4]

References

1. ^ Humes & Mosback, Charles Henry Miller 1842-1922 - Exhibition - Landscape & Portraiture - Collection of Art Objects & Rare Books - by Charles Henry Miller, pamphlet, c. 1922.
2. ^ ^{a b c}  "Miller, Charles Henry". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 
3. ^ Fleming & Evans, A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork, Southold, NY: Southold Historical Society, 2008, 215-216. The school has since been renamed for Edward M. Funk.
4. ^ ^{a b} Fleming & Evans, A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork.

• Some biographical information, along with corrections and additions, is excerpted with permission from A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork, (2008), published by the Southold Historical Society, Southold, Suffolk County, New York.

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Name	Miller, Charles Henry, N. A.
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Date of birth	March 20, 1842
Place of birth	Long Island, New York
Date of death	January 21, 1922
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