Ruth Miller

Ruth Miller is an American artist, born in 1930, whose still life paintings can take control of a space with the relationships of dynamic shape and color. The two elements of form and color play off of each other in Miller’s paintings as her color use helps to separate the forms and utilize the forms in between them. In 1953, Miller received her M.F.A. from the University of Missouri. Following, she moved to New York City where she had her eyes opened as she bonded with many artists such as Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Al Held and Esteban Vicente. She then met and married her husband, Andrew Forge. Andrew Forge was an abstract painter, art critic, and an academic, with esteemed titles such as the Dean of the Yale School of Art. The pair created together for over 30 years, until Forge’s passing in 2002, as well continuing their individual artistic journeys, as they influenced each other to continue exploring and discovering.

Miller has taught at a collection of different schools including New York Studio School, Queens College, Parsons School of Design, University of Hartford, Yale University Summer School, Studio Art School of the Aegean in Samos, Greece, and International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. She also has been a part of many exhibitions and has collections in Delaware Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery, National Academy of Design, University of Delaware and New York Studio School.