{{short description|American painter, etcher, printmaker, and art critic}} {{distinguish|Arthur Miller}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Millier | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1893 | birth_place = Weston-super-Mare, England | death_date = March 30, 1975 | death_place = Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = Pritchard Cemetery, Marshall, North Carolina, U.S. | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Los Angeles High School | alma_mater = Art Students League of Los Angeles<br/>California School of Fine Arts | employer = | occupation = Painter, etcher, printmaker, art critic | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = Sarah Pritchard | children = 3 | parents = | relatives = }} '''Arthur Millier''' (1893 – March 30, 1975) was a British-born American painter, etcher, printmaker, and art critic. He was the art critic for the ''Los Angeles Times'' from 1926 to 1958. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums in the United States.
==Life== Millier was born in 1893 in Weston-super-Mare, England.<ref name="oacmillierbio">{{cite web |last1=Chetney |first1=Sara |title=Arthur Millier Archive |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c85144n3/entire_text/ |website=Online Archive of California |accessdate=July 3, 2020}}</ref><ref name="saammillier">{{cite web |title=Arthur Millier |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/arthur-millier-3341 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |accessdate=July 3, 2020}}</ref><ref name="artinstitutechicagomillier">{{cite web |title=Arthur Millier |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/17394/arthur-millier |website=Art Institute of Chicago |date=1893 |accessdate=July 3, 2020}}</ref> He emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles in 1908.<ref name="latimesobit">{{cite news |title=Arthur Millier, Artist, Ex-Times Critic, Dies At 81 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/385721789/?terms=%22Arthur%2BMillier%22 |accessdate=July 3, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 31, 1975|page=37|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was educated at the Los Angeles High School and the Art Students League of Los Angeles.<ref name="oacmillierbio"/> After serving in World War I in France, he attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.<ref name="oacmillierbio"/>
Millier became an etcher, printmaker and painter in San Francisco, exhibiting his work as early as 1922.<ref name="oacmillierbio"/> He taught at the Chouinard Art Institute, Otis Art Institute, the University of Southern California, and the Pasadena Art Institute from 1922 to 1926.<ref name="oacmillierbio"/> One of his notable students was Mildred Bryant Brooks.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Kovinick |first1=Phil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifhPAAAAMAAJ&q=Mildred+Bryant+Brooks+1901 |title=An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West |last2=Yoshiki-Kovinick |first2=Marian |date=1998 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-79063-6 |pages=32 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=1959-12-06 |title=Mildred Bryant Brooks Christmas Open House 1959 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-mildred-bryant-bro/11605053/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=145 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
He was the art critic for the ''Los Angeles Times'' from 1926 to 1958.<ref name="latimesobit" /> He subsequently resumed painting watercolors in San Luis Obispo, California,<ref name="latimesobit" /> and he received the Humanities Award from the National Watercolor Society in 1973.<ref name="ashevillecitizentimesobit">{{cite news |title=Arthur Millier Dies; Noted Critic, Artist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/202622492/?terms=%22Arthur%2BMillier%22 |accessdate=July 3, 2020 |work=Asheville Citizen-Times |location=Asheville, North Carolina |date=April 2, 1975|page=24|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Millier married Sarah Pritchard.<ref name="latimesobit"/> They had two sons, Arthur and David, and a daughter, Mrs John Hallock.<ref name="latimesobit"/> Millier died on March 30, 1975, in Hackensack, New Jersey, at age 81, and he was buried in the Pritchard Cemetery in Marshall, North Carolina.<ref name="latimesobit"/><ref name="ashevillecitizentimesobit"/> His work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art,<ref name="dallasmillier">{{cite web |title=Arthur Millier |url=https://collections.dma.org/search?facet_artist_creator=arthur%2Bmillier |website=Dallas Museum of Art |accessdate=July 3, 2020}}</ref> the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,<ref name="lacmamillier">{{cite web |title=Arthur Millier |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/165503 |website=Los Angeles County Museum of Art |accessdate=July 3, 2020}}</ref> the Philadelphia Museum of Art,<ref name="philmusmillier">{{cite web |title=Arthur Millier |url=https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=arthur+millier&keySearch=&searchNameID=&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&searchDeptID=&page=1 |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |accessdate=July 3, 2020}}</ref> and the Art Institute of Chicago.<ref name="artinstitutechicagomillier"/>
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