Roger Ramsay opened his eponymous gallery on Michigan Avenue in 1981. Over the years, Roger Ramsay Gallery featured works in nearly every medium and in motifs ranging from classical to abstract, including the first exhibition of drawings by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl in the United States. Roger featured the work of artists from Chicago, the U.S., Canada, and Europe, from the late 19th century to the 21st century. Chicago-based artists exhibited by Roger include Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Claes Oldenburg, Randy Dudley, and Elizabeth Ockwell among others. Roger Ramsay Gallery closed in 2018.
Edgar Miller 1899–1993
Edgar Miller was a designer and craftsman, working in a diverse range of mediums and creating expressive “total works of art” in a time when stark modernism prevailed. He blended a traditional Arts and Crafts sensibility with a highly decorative aesthetic, and a progressive spirit. He was involved in the arts community in Chicago for over five decades.
Miller was born in Idaho Falls, which was then still a rugged frontier town. Here, Miller was exposed to pristine nature, an enduring motif in all of his work. He showed an early interest in drawing and art, especially of animals, of which horses were his favorite (Miller received a pony from his father when he was seven-years-old). At nine, Miller created illustrations of his favorite poems by Alfred Tennyson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; a few years later, he began working as a watercolorist at an architectural firm.
Auction Results Edgar Miller
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Important Italian Glass
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