Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1876-1952) Shop Girl

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Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1876-1952)

Shop Girl
Signed and dated "Hayes Miller/'46" u.r., with a partial label from the National Academy of Design (see below) affixed to the stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 21 x 16 in. (53.5 x 40.8 cm),framed.
Condition: Lined, minor retouch, stable craquelure.

N.B. The label from the National Academy of Design is printed "Member's Exempt Ticket/National Academy of Design/119th Annual Exhibition/..." The date of the 119th Annual Exhibition was March 14-April 3, 1945. That year Miller is listed as exhibiting Portrait of a Girl as cat. no. 104. The number "104" is pasted to the front of the frame of the work at hand. However, the work itself is dated "'46" beneath the signature at upper right, raising the question if this is indeed the same painting and if it might have been dated later by the artist.
Estimate $6,000-8,000


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