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Addison T. Millar (American, 1860-1913)
Seascape, n.d.

Monotype, 4 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.171

Born in Warren, Ohio, Millar made his way east to study art,
first at the Art Students League, New York, and in 1892 at
William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Summer School of Art,
Southampton, New York. He then went to Paris to study with
the Italian portraitist Giovanni Boldini, French Orientalist
Benjamin Constant, and Impressionist Henri Martin—a
panoply of various artistic interests. Millar spent the summer of
1895 studying again with Chase who was teaching a summer
course in Spain that year. With such a diverse background, it
is hard to pin down just where and when Millar began making
monotypes, however, it seems probable that he was introduced
to the medium during his early studies at the Art Students
League. Tragically, the artist and his wife Mrs. Janie Craft
Millar were killed when their automobile was struck by a train
near South Norwalk, Connecticut, on September 8, 1913.
NOTES:
Ackerman, American Orientalists, 126–128.
Townsend, “Obituary: Addison T. Millar,” American Art News, 4.

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