The Marjorie Miller that everyone searches for is the art nouveau artist, but there were others. Here they all are. It is hoped that posting them here will uncover even more.
- Marjorie Janet Miller (1897 — 1936) British art nouveau artist
- Marjorie Miller [Estes] (1899 – 1995) art instructor from Illinois and California
- Marjorie G. Miller (1923 – ) Arizona miniatures and greeting cards
- Lee Miller (1907–1977) American surrealist and WWII photographer
- Marjorie Lee Miller, bizarre drawings between 1970-1981
- Marjorie Lee Miller, Pennsylvania art show from Morning Call in 1984
- Marjorie L. Miller (c 1945-2003) painter, obit from Morning Call, same paper as art show
- Marjorie Lee Miller, cover art for 1971 “dirty blues” album
Marjorie Miller, or Marjorie Janet Miller (probably) (1897, Woodford Green, London — 1936)(probably) was an art nouveau artist who drew popular images like “Spring’s Promise” (1930) and “Queen of the Night” (1931). (I say “probably” because this is based on unpublished information, most of which I have not seen personally. See Marjorie Miller, including comments). This is the one everyone searches for.
Marjorie Miller [Estes] (Dec 21, 1899, Henry, Illinois – March 13, 1995, San Diego, California) was an art teacher in Illinois. She was listed in Artists in California, 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes, but it had no artworks attributed to her. She is sometimes erroneously conflated with the British art nouveau artist, but there is no evidence to link them.
Marjorie G. Miller (Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1923 – ) does miniatures and greeting cards in Arizona. https://mandmwatercolors.wordpress.com/about/
Lee Miller (1907–1977) American photographer. Born Elizabeth Miller in Poughkeepsie, New York. Associated with the Surrealists, Picasso, Man Ray…worked for Vogue. Most known for WWII photographs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller
If you search for “Marjorie Lee Miller” on an art house website, you may get this artist mixed in with the results.
The confusion begins. This has turned out not to be the Margorie Miller people are looking for, but I will leave it in just in case it may be useful to someone:
UNTITLED (IRON WORK) which sold for 377,000 USD in 2014. https://bidtoart.com/artist/marjorie-lee-miller Also a list of sold works here: https://findartinfo.com/english/list-prices-by-artist/9037/marjorie-lee-miller.html
(I’m not convinced this is all the same person, some seem to have gotten mixed into some auction house collections as “Lee Miller” — Elizabeth “Lee” [née MacDonald] Miller — who was a WWII photographer, and whose photos illustrated Elizabeth Cowling’s “Visiting Picasso”. I think it’s safe to assume that anything Picasso-related in those lists is misattributed.)
https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-artist-his-biographer-and-his-wife-2491969.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller
Marjorie Lee Miller
[Note: the Marjorie Lee Miller information has now been incorporated into “Marjorie Lee Miller and ‘Eau de Hamster’”. https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2023/07/19/marjorie-lee-miller-and-eau-de-hamster/ ]
“Committee for the Preservation of Byzantine” 1980
Pennsylvania art show
Pennsylvania obit
This is probably her,
“Marjorie L. Miller, 58, of Township Road, Quakertown, died Aug. 12 in her home. She was the wife of Alan T. Miller. A graduate of Philadelphia College of Art, she was a painter.”
Also she had family in Sarasota Florida, which fits with the Florida drawings mentioned in the art show review. Published by Morning Call on Aug. 14, 2003, the same paper that covered the art exhibit. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mcall/name/marjorie-miller-obituary?pid=1316549
“Peaceful Kingdom”
Marjorie Lee Miller, unknown, a woodcut titled “Peaceful Kingdom” dated 1970 sold at auction in 2021.. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/110572808_marjorie-lee-miller-peaceful-kingdom-woodcut
“Peaceful Kingdom” woodcut, titled, numbered 8/25, dated 1970 and signed in pencil. Matted and framed. Visible image: approx. 13 1/4″ x 11″.Frame: approx. 19 1/2″ x 17″.
“Committee for the Preservation of Byzantine” and the “Peaceful Kingdom” both have similar signatures.
There is a third one with the same signature, “Eua de hamster” owned privately, which has not been at auction.
Cover art 1973
Marjorie Lee Miller, cover art for Bo Carter – “Twist It Babe” 1931-1940 https://www.discogs.com/release/7500684-Bo-Carter-Twist-It-Babe-1931-1940
A very skimpy profile: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1469255
This is a compilation, produced by Yazoo, 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Carter
Margie Miller is a painter and art conservator from California. She studied at Oregon School of Arts and Crafts and has been associated with Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission and Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA https://margiemiller.com/
Not artists
Marjorie L. Miller is a preservationist who wrote seven books with Arthur P. Miller on nature and Pennsylvania topics. https://chescocf.org/fund/marjorie-arthur-miller/
Marjorie Miller is a journalist who is Vice President and Global Enterprise Editor at The Associated Press, and became administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2022
NOT Marjorie Miller.
(moved from Marjorie Miller)
This unsigned print has been attributed to Marjorie Miller on Tumblr, but it is by Ethel Franklin Betts Baines, from the cover of August 1916 House & Garden magazine. https://condenaststore.com/featured/a-house-and-garden-cover-of-a-woman-raking-leaves-ethel-franklin-betts-baines.html
Blatant fakes
There are several pieces that have been scraped from defunct accounts on DeviantArt and are being marketed on various sites by “Sistar Sparkles” or “SistarSprkls” as reprints by Marjorie Miller or other artists. You would think these sites would use copyright detection like Commons, they are not doing due diligence and they are being duped.
This one is being advertised on Redbubble as “The Three Princesses” by Marjorie Miller (1928)” Art Print for Sale by SistarSprkls Copyright: © Sistar Sparkles Original Design. https://archive.is/wip/j17Z7 However it has been traced to “Three Princesses of Whiteland.” by arbetta on Deviantart in 2017. You can even see the copyright mark still in the lower left corner. The original is in the center, you can click to embiggen.
Here is another fake attribution, again by this same “Sistar Sparkles”. The oldest traceable copy of this image is “Quatrain 70 by Himmapaan”, in 2011, again on Deviantart, by someone who did a cycle of drawings around the Rubtyat of Omar Khayyam. https://www.deviantart.com/himmapaan/gallery/12535642(dead link)
It appears again with the same user name in 2013, at LiveJournal. https://himmapaan.livejournal.com/25212.html Then again in 2013, with a photobucket watermark, attributed to “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Niroot Puttapipat”. https://cizgilimasallar.blogspot.com/2013/02/niroot-puttapipat-rubaiyat-of-omar.html
The original by the artist is in the center, and is clickable.
“Sistar Sparkles”
This “Sistar Sparkles” or “SistarSprkls” does seem to get around. Here is their profile on Society6 https://archive.is/wip/YwY4J and here is is on RedBubble https://archive.is/wip/69eLx
I wonder how many other images on these sites have been scraped from old accounts on DeviantArt and falsely attributed to other artists.
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