Edith Maude Miller 1889-1964- Tujunga Canyon - Oil on Canvas 1930s P2840

A wonderful, brooding view of a white cliff on California mountainside. Measures 26 1/2" x 28 1/2", frame 33 1/2" x 35 1/2".

Edith Maude Miller was born in Ringgold County, Iowa on May 18th, 1889. After moving to Oklahoma, she went on to study at The Chicago Art Institute and the Colorado Springs Broadmoor Art Academy. By the 1920s, she had lost most of her hearing, but in spite of her condition she became an art instructor at the State College for Women in Oklahoma, the Chicago Art Institute and later at the State School for the Deaf in Oklahoma. After a spell in Texas she moved to Los Angeles and continued her education at the Frank Wiggins Trade School and the Otis Art Institute. Her oeuvre includes oils, tempera, watercolor and lithography, and she became well known for beautifully executed landscapes as well as figurative work that revealed a theatrical and often satirical side to her talent. She passed away in Los Angeles on February 6, 1964.

Biographical information from Maurine St Gaudens magisterial survey, Emerging From The Shadows - A Survey of Women Artists Working In California, 1860-1890.

This painting is featured in that work on p747.