Peter Miller

Untitled C. 1930 -1935 24 3/4" x 30" Oil on Canvas

Untitled C. 1950

52"H x 38"W

Oil on Canvas

Untitled C. 1950

38"H x 51"W

Oil on Canvas

In 1934, Miller traveled to Europe where she met Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miró. Miró greatly influenced Miller's painting style during the 1930s and 1940s.

Miller married artist C. Earle Miller in 1935. She took his last name and began signing her work using the name Peter Miller to avoid disclosing her gender. She first used the name 'Peter' during her exhibition at the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico^.

Miller had solo exhibitions at Julien Levy Gallery in 1944 and 1945. Her work was included in The Women, a June 1945 exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century Gallery that featured over thirty women artists. Others featured in the show included Lee Krasner and Nell Blane.

Miller and her husband lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Española, New Mexico. Their ranch in Española bordered the San Ildefonso Pueblo which was inhabited by the Tewa people. Miller's work was greatly inspired by the Pueblo and Indigenous cultures.^[4]

Miller and her husband gifted their Miró painting, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower (Still Life with Horse) to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1986.^[1]

Peter Miller 1913 - 1996

Seraphin Gallery, Jenkintown, PA