Impressionistic style; woman wearing a pink and white dress holding an unfolded pink and yellow parasol and a hat with a green ribbon in a bright landscape; high horizon line

The Parasol, 1910-13

Richard E. Millerexpand_more

Oil on canvasexpand_more

Gift from the family of Ella Pillsbury Crosbyexpand_more  2012.85.1

Not on Viewexpand_more

Traces of Impressionism can be seen here in the brisk brushstrokes and vivid colors. Richard Miller was a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists in France, a group inspired by the famous resident of Giverny, Claude Monet. Miller is known as a figurative painter whose subjects are primarily young women posed in decorative interiors or beautiful gardens. The bright and colorful landscape surrounding the woman here alludes to nothing beyond itself. Miller believed that “art’s mission is not literary, the telling of a story, but decorative, the conveying of a pleasant optical sensation.”

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Title
The Parasol
Artist Life
1875 - 1943
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2012.85.1
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Impressionistic style; woman wearing a pink and white dress holding an unfolded pink and yellow parasol and a hat with a green ribbon in a bright landscape; high horizon line

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