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J. Vance Miller
J. Vance Miller
Vance was a self-taught artist who dropped out of school at the end of his 8th grade year. He started painting full-time at the age of 57. Many of his early painting sold for $20.00 or $30.00. They now hang in homes across the country.
Vance was preceded in death by two of his children, and his wife Libby. He died January 21, 2002 at the age of 89, Blacksburg, Virginia. He is survived by one son and two daughters Vance Edward, Nancy Miller Sayers and Lisa Miller Holdren; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Subjects and Style: American Impressionism. In the early 1940' he began painting with watercolors but switched to using oil paint and a brush in the mid 1940's. In the mid 1950's he began using a palette knife, believing he could achieve more accurate colors and depth from his oil paints.
Though best known for landscapes, rivers, creeks, mountainsides, on rare occasion he
Vance was preceded in death by two of his children, and his wife Libby. He died January 21, 2002 at the age of 89, Blacksburg, Virginia. He is survived by one son and two daughters Vance Edward, Nancy Miller Sayers and Lisa Miller Holdren; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Subjects and Style: American Impressionism. In the early 1940' he began painting with watercolors but switched to using oil paint and a brush in the mid 1940's. In the mid 1950's he began using a palette knife, believing he could achieve more accurate colors and depth from his oil paints.
Though best known for landscapes, rivers, creeks, mountainsides, on rare occasion he
painted florals, consignment pieces, portraits and other still life.
Courtesy of AskArt.com
