Vance Miller Sunlight on Path Framed Oil Painting

Description: Artist; Vance MillerTitle: Sunlight on Path Medium; Oil on canvas, framedSize; 12" x 16"Size in frame; 19-1/4 x 23-1/4" Biography from Askart; The following information was submitted in April of 2006 by Wendy Sayers Reed, a granddaughter of the artist:J. Vance Miller (1912-2002)Personal Information:Born: November 12, 1912, Princeton, West Virginia.He was the third of six children to James Arthur and Eva Maude Miller.Vance married Elizabeth Sue Ellis (Libby) February 13, 1935 at the age of 22, whom he met in grade school.In the 1930's Vance became a salesman for the Maytag Corporation. In 1943 he moved the family to Baltimore to help work on ships to participate in the war effort. After the war, they returned to Princeton, West Virginia where he worked as an appliance salesman until 1955. A gift of a watercolor set started Vance on his love of painting and after much trial and error he painted his first painting in 1944.Over a period of 20 years Vance and Libby had five children, James Marvin, Nancy Sue (Sayers), Mary Ellis (Campbell), Vance Edward, and Lisa Dawn (Holdren). The children grew up having numerous picnics and hiking trips on creek banks, mountainsides and beside waterfalls so that Vance could paint. He was quoted to say, "to study light, you need to be where light is". Original J. Vance Miller paintings were produced on window shades that became "canvas" during the lean years of the mid 40's. In 1955 Vance moved the family to Blacksburg, Virginia where he sold mobile homes in the evenings and on weekends, allowing him the daylight to paint.Mrs. Ruth Fisher encouraged Vance to continue his art work. In 1961 they joined together to open The Palette Art Gallery, a non-profit gallery, in Christiansburg, Virginia.After the older children moved away from home, Vance and Libby traveled with their two younger children to scenes that had inspired him in books. The following are trips that were taken where he painted on location; Yosemite, Grand Canyon, New Mexico, Southern Coast of California, Gulf Coast of Florida, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.Vance considered the paintings he did in the Jefferson National Forest outside of Blacksburg, Virginia to be some of his finest work, (and favorite place to be), especially a two mile stretch of Little Stoney Creek in Giles County, Virginia.Vance was a self-taught artist who dropped out of school at the end of his 8th grade year. He started painting full-time at the age of 57. Many of his early painting sold for $20.00 or $30.00. They now hang in homes across the country. Vance was preceded in death by two of his children, and his wife Libby. He died January 21, 2002 at the age of 89, Blacksburg, Virginia. He is survived by one son and two daughters Vance Edward, Nancy Miller Sayers and Lisa Miller Holdren; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Subjects and Style: American Impressionism. In the early 1940' he began painting with watercolors but switched to using oil paint and a brush in the mid 1940's. In the mid 1950's he began using a palette knife, believing he could achieve more accurate colors and depth from his oil paints.Though best known for landscapes, rivers, creeks, mountainsides, on rare occasion he painted florals, consignment pieces, portraits and other still life.

Price: 2300 USD

Location: Marietta, Georgia

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