Richard Edward Miller’s The Sun Porch shows the influence of French Impressionism. The woman’s surroundings and attire are painted with small dabs and long, loose strokes of paint—characteristic of the Impressionist style. Miller encountered the Impressionists while spending summers in Giverny, France. There he saw and studied Claude Monet’s landscape paintings. Although Miller embraced the Impressionists’ desire to capture a fleeting moment, the female figure in The Sun Porch is strongly modeled, evidence of the ongoing influence of his early training.
Gift of Mary Edith Woodward in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008.42
