Harry Vye Miller New Zealand, 1907-86
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About Harry Vye Miller
Born in Otago, New Zealand in 1907, Harry Vye Miller studied at Dunedin Teachers College. A painter, printmaker, wrote as an art critic for the Evening Star, and was on the council of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and National Art Gallery. He painted still life and flower pictures in oil, watercolour and pastel and also produced linocuts and etchings. Harry Vye Miller exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1947.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Harry Miller from 1987 and in total 48 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 35 (73%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,484 for The Little Plantation, Lawrence sold by Webb's in December 2001. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Harry Miller are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia and Museum Of New Zealand.
Harry Vye Miller is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 683
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 610,000 works by more than 12,000 artists who are listed as having either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and an additional 36,000 foreign and other artists, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand from the early 1970s to the present day.
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