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EVA HAMLIN MILLER (1911 - 1992)
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Oil and mixed media collage on canvas, circa 1975. 711x508 mm; 28x20 inches. Signed and titled
in pencil on the verso.
Provenance: private Washington, DC collection.
This is the first known work of this influential South Carolina artist and educator to come to
auction. Born in Brooklyn, Miller grew up in Greensboro, SC. She later received a B.F.A. from Pratt
Institute in 1940, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1945 where she studied painting. She
taught art at theTuskegee Institute in Alabama before becoming Bennett College’s first art instructor
in 1937. She went on to be the chair at theWinston-SalemTeachers College and the first African-
American supervisor for Greensboro schools. Her work has been extensively exhibited, including
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Raleigh Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art
and the National Museum of Art, Dakar, Senegal. Her profile is included in both Dr. Samella Lewis’s
1969
African-American Artists
and Dr. Leslie King-Hammond’s 1995
Gumbo Ya Ya Anthology of
Contemporary African-AmericanWomen Artists
. King-Hammond pp. 171-172.
[1,000/1,500]