EVYLENA NUNN MILLER (1888 1966)
Evylena Nunn Miller was born in Mayfield, Kansas. In 1903, at age 15, she moved to Santa Ana, California and earned her B.A. from Pomona College and studied with Anna Althea Hills and Hannah Tempest Jenkins. She also attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Berkshire Summer School of Art. From 1911 to 1918, she taught art at Claremont High School and Riverside Girls School and at Santa Ana High School. From 1920 to 1922, she taught at a boys school in Japan before returning to the United States in 1923, where she married Howard Earl Miller. Living in Los Angeles, the Millers traveled widely in the ensuing years, with Evylena painting landscapes, coastal views and scenes depicting Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. One of her goals was to paint all of the pueblos of the Southwest These pursuits led to the completion of 40 canvases of scenes of life in the pueblos of the Navajo, Apache, Toas, Hopi, Jemez, Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni. She also painted in Japan, China, Egypt and the Holy Land and published a book, "Travel Tree" in 1933 about these journeys. In 1956, she became Director of the Bowers Memorial Museum in Santa Ana and was a member of Women Painters of the West, the California Art Club, and the Laguna Art Association. She died in Santa Ana in 1966, having exhibited widely. including in the National Art Gallery, the Smithsonian, and the California Art Club.
Castle Rock, Arizona (Navaho Reservation)
Oil on canvas, laid on board, 8" x 10"
Signed lower right: E. Nunn Miller
Label afixed verso:
Circa 1940
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