About Mildred McMillen
Lived 1884 – 1940 (aged 55–56). Mildred McMillen was an American artist.
Mildred McMillen (1884–1940) was an American printmaker.
McMillen was a native of Chicago who studied at the School of the Art Institute in that city from 1906 until 1913. There, she and her long-time companion Ada Gilmore first met. She and Gilmore spent time in France, studying with Ethel Mars and later at the Académie Colarossi, before the outbreak of World War I drove them back to the United States. Another teacher was Charles Hawthorne.
In 1914 McMillen and Gilmore settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they became founding members of the Provincetown Printers. Several works by McMillen are owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and she is represented as well in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
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Who was Mildred McMillen?
American woodcutter (1884–1940)
When was Mildred McMillen born?
Mildred McMillen was born in 1884 in Chicago.
When did Mildred McMillen die?
Mildred McMillen died in 1940.
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Mildred McMillen was an artist.
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Mildred McMillen was American.
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