As of today, there is only one month left to shop for the holidays!
If you know art lovers, then maybe you can find some gifts in our online museum shop. This year we have books, posters, notecards, and postcards for sale!
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The Big Countdown
As of today, there is only one month left to shop for the holidays!
If you know art lovers, then maybe you can find some gifts in our online museum shop. This year we have books, posters, notecards, and postcards for sale!
The bargain-hunters in today's scene are crowed in a typical, last-minute holiday shopping frenzy. For his subjects, Kenneth Miller looked to 14th Street and Union Square in New York City. His sales girls and shoppers seem frozen in space, the forms of their bodies described in terms of interlocking ovals that are contained within carefully conceived contour lines.
Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987).
Pictured: Kenneth Hayes Miller, 1876–1952, Bargain Hunters, 1940, oil, 30 7/8 x 36 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.