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City Snow

1944

John Paul Miller

(American, 1918–2013)
Culture
America, Ohio, Cleveland
Medium
watercolor
Measurements
Sheet: 37.9 x 55.7 cm (14 15/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.139
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Description

Although Miller is renowned as a jeweler working in gold and enamel, he planned to be a painter. Miller graduated from the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art) in 1940 and taught there a year before joining the army. He was stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and continued to make watercolors of urban scenes and landscapes. Miller said he was influenced by the realist paintings of Edward Hopper and the more expressionist landscapes of Charles Burchfield. City Snow won second prize for watercolor in the Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Work by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen (known as the May Show) at the museum in 1944. John Bonebrake, the donor, knew Miller well since both attended Shaker Heights High School.
A horizontally oriented watercolor presents a high-angle view of a snowy intersection framed by a dark elevated train structure. Spindly, dark lines crisscross the street, which is streaked with slushy gray paint. On the right, a rounded car sits near a sidewalk and fire hydrant. A red building provides a pop of color among shadowy storefronts on the left. Stark white highlights and deep shadows create a high-contrast, atmospheric city scene.

City Snow

1944

John Paul Miller

(American, 1918–2013)
America, Ohio, Cleveland

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