We are downsizing and need to sell some of the folk art we’ve had for 25 years. Miller (19122006) is one of the most famous. We put together this lot of 3 R. 36″ tall original “Blow Oskar painted and signed by R. 10″ X 5″ “Lord Love You” bird hand drawn and signed by R. Miller American Flag T-shirt, size XL. Please see closeup hi-rez pictures for condition detail. Miller (19122006) Miller is famous for his red devils, angels, and. Which is based on his cousin who would wildly blow his horn whenever he would drive by Millers property. Ruben Aaron Miller, born in Rabbittown, GA, was the youngest of eight children. Six months before he was born, his father was shot and killed over a land dispute for the control of a public road. For years after, the fatherless family got by on farming cotton, hunting and fishing. Dropped out of school at the age of 12 and went to work in a cotton mill. He also chopped wood for 50 cents a load. Later in life he served as an ordained minister for the Free Will Baptist Church. Miller retired at the age of 65, after his vision began to deteriorate due to glaucoma, and started making the whirligigs that he made as a boy to pass the time. As a self-taught folk artist, he best known for his whirligigs, metal cutouts and sharpie drawings. One of Miller’s neighbors recollected. When he first started, we all laughed at him and said’Who wants that junk? In addition to the recognition he received from appearing in music videos of R. In the 1980s, Miller’s artwork appeared on the December 2001 cover of TV Guide. Miller began receiving visitors from overseas. In 2006 Brenau University’s Simmons Visual Arts Center featured his works in an exhibit titled R. The Georgia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Miller’s work in 2009. The exhibit, titled Lord Love You: Works by R. Miller from the Mullis Collection ran August 15 through October 24, 2009. On July 23, 2012 an exhibit and “birthday party” was held at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center, in Gainesville, Georgia to recognize the works of R. Miller, and to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late artist. The item “R. A. MILLER BLOW OSKAR ON TIN, T-SHIRT, & LARGE FRIDGE MAGNET. FOLK ART ICON” is in sale since Tuesday, September 22, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “selltrust” and is located in Nashville, Tennessee. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay, Russian federation.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Region of Origin: US-Southeast
- Artist: R. A. MILLER
- Style: Folk Art
- Material: Metal
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Date of Creation: 1990-1999
- Type: Paintings
- Features: Signed
- Width (Inches): 8″
- Subject: Blow Oskar
- Originality: Original
- Height (Inches): 36″
