Outstanding Painting Outsider Folk Art R A Miller Lord Love You Devil Bird Snake

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Outstanding Painting Outsider Folk Art R A Miller Lord Love You Devil Bird Snake:
$79.99

You have the opportunity to own an Outstanding Painting Outsider Folk Art R A Miller Lord Love You Devil Bird Snake I recently found in the Missouri estate of the nationally recognized Outsider and Inuit Art Collector James (Jim) Heard. A longtime collector, we have some really beautiful and important pieces selling over the next month. Painting on Masonite is approx.12” x 16”, signed on left front bottom.

R. A. Miller was born July 22, 1912 in Gainesville, Georgia. He passed away March 7, 2006.R. A. Miller began making art at about the age of sixty-eight when the onset of glaucoma made it difficult for him to continue raising hogs. He began by creating whirligigs and soon the hillside next to his house was covered with colorful spinning “windmills” as he called them. He would cut tin in the shape of animals, devils, angels, and “Blow Oscar,” (a rendition of a man who would blow his horn every time he passed by). He then would paint the tin and attach it to crudely assembled wooden pieces. R. A. also made paintings on tin or wood, some with messages such as “lord love you”. (Miller was a preacher at the Free Will Baptist Church.) He was also inspired by animal images he would see on television.His work was included in “Outside the Mainstream, Folk Art in Our Time, 1988, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga. and “Passionate Visions of the American South,” at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Please contact me with any questions, and see all the excellent Folk Art, Inuit Art, and Outsider Artists we will be selling over the coming weeks for combined shipping discount, and check back all year for new pieces from this collection.