Kenneth Hayes Miller

Kenneth Hayes Miller (March 11, 1876 – January 1, 1952) was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher.

Career Born in Oneida, New York, he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Kenyon Cox, Henry Siddons Mowbray and with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art. His early works were influenced by the paintings of his friend Albert Pinkham Ryder, and depict figures in phantasmagorical landscapes.

Although he used traditional methods and was hostile to artistic modernism, Miller believed that good art is always radical in nature. He was a socialist, and intended his art to have a political dimension. His students include: Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Isabel Bishop, Arnold Blanch, Patrick Henry Bruce, Minna Citron, John McCrady, Thelma Cudlipp, Horace Day, Dorothy Eaton, Arnold Friedman, Lloyd Goodrich, Josephine Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Anne Kutka McCosh, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Edward Middleton Manigault, Reginald Marsh, George L.K. Morris, Walter Tandy Murch, Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, George Tooker, Russel Wright, Albert Pels, William C. Palmer, Molly Luce, and Helen Winslow Durkee.

Public collections

Collections where his works can be found include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York Phillips Collection, Washington, District of Columbia New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, District of Columbia Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, District of Columbia Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky