MILLER, Daniel D.   -Printmaking

b. 1928 Pittsburgh, PA 

1951 Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College
1955-59 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1958 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Pennsylvania

"Monet" 15.2" x 11" "Gorky" 16.5" x 11" "Manet" 11.5" x 12" "Joyce Carol Oates" 12.5" x 11" "Summer Shore" 11" x 21" "August Moon" 23.5" x 11"
Dan Miller has been an instructor of fine arts and art history at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1964. He divides his time between Amish country Pennsylvania and Downeast - Corea Maine, where he translates the natural rugged beauty of the coast of Maine into finely detailed woodcuts and limited edition print landscapes. For many years, lovers of Maine art have been collecting his prints that capture the magnificence of coastal islands, the grace of the pines and the charm of small Maine seaside towns and villages. Dan Miller’s time in Maine also allows him to work on his precise wood block portraits of famous and infamous personalities - Oates, Turkel, Whitman, Hardy, and others. He has won numerous awards and prizes for his work, which can be found in public and private art collections around the world.
Feeling the sympathy of wood I have gravitated over the years toward the woodcut and wood sculpture. But material is only the beginning. The task has been to make personal what the material allows.....
"In truth, the subject of my paintings is not the landscape, but rather the unknown. I offer the landscape as I see it- full of mystery, secrets, poetry, silence, memory, and beauty, a world without movement where the viewer is brought into a wordless dialogue with the content of the painting. My work aspires to go beyond a physical surface reality to a psychological and emotional reality that does not specify a place or time. My paintings are made up of pieces of photographed, imagined, dreamed and remembered landscape. I have no desire to interpret the landscape, but to offer a moment of contemplation and a chance to give oneself over to the solitude, stillness and the questions they offer. -Dan Miller
Chair, Graduate Programs. B.A. Lafayette College 1951. Certificate Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1959. M.F.A. University of Pennsylvania 1958. Dean’s Award Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1989. Numerous solo exhibitions. Percy M. Owens Memorial Award 1986. Numerous public and private collections. Collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Rutgers University; Pennsylvania State University; Dickinson College; Princeton University Library; University of Maine; numerous private collections. Awards: Percy Owen Award; Pennsylvania Academy Dean's Award; Leona Karp Braverman Prize. Exhibitions (2001) at Artist’s House Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Academy Library.