During the forty years Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League in New York City, he encouraged a generation of American painters, including Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, and Sara Roby, to find inspiration in contemporary life. Yet he also counseled compositional balance and the value of classic form. For his own work, Miller looked to the shoppers, salesgirls, strollers, and streetwalkers he encountered around Fourteenth Street and Union Square. In Bargain Hunters, he captured the crush of femininity on sale day. Although the women seem frozen in space, their eyes sparkle with the excitement of bargain hunting.
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014
- Title
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Bargain Hunters
- Artist
- Date
- 1940
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 30 7⁄8 x 36 1⁄8 in. (78.4 x 91.8 cm.)
- Copyright
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© 1940, Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Allegory – quality – prudence
- Occupation – domestic – shopping
- Ethnic – African-American
- Architecture Interior – commercial – store
- Figure group
- Object Number
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1986.6.65
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
