RA Miller FOLK ART Outsider Framed Lord Love You Bird Signed painting

FOLK ART PAINTING BY outsider artist RA MILLER Lord Love you Animal Figures Framed marker on paper, 14 x 16-7/8 in.; wood frame, 21-1/2 x 24-1/2 in Matted Provenance: The Collection of Carl and Marian MullisNote: The framed Lord Love You work was featured in the Lord Love You Exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art. ( RA MILLER From Georgia, 1912-2006) Lord Love You painting, signed "R.A. Miller", acrylic on board. A brightly colored peacock and smaller red flying bird above. Good condition may have very minor paint loss.Very nicely framed. Outsider artist RA MILLER - He made art to “beautify his yard” by cutting out tin pieces and and often combining pieces to form elaborate whirlygigs and functional windscreens and ornamental objects. He began to fashion his brightly painted tin constructions which he attached to stakes in his yard, larger wood assemblages. RA Miller, a southern folk artist, was the youngest of eight children. At 12 years of age he worked in the cotton mill, for 20 years. After his marriage he started preaching over northeast Georgia. After retiring he began to create his own art and whirligigs. He often did patriotic themed art. He used old tin, recycled wood, bicycle parts and scrap metal for materials. He is known for the painted cutouts and drawings. His artwork has appeared in various books and exhibits on Folk Art and in the Band, R.E.M's videos His paintings and cut-outs have been shown at the High Museum of Art exhibition "Outside the Mainstream: Folk Art in our Time. RA Miller died in 2006. See more of his art at Anton Haardt Gallery. Provenance: The Collection of Carl and Marian MullisThe Mullis folk art collection, has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the country, and they donated many works of art to the Georgia Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, and the Yale University Art Museum. In 1994, they began their folk art collection which includes Bill Traylor and other southern folk artists. There have been four exhibitions based on the Mullis collection. 2007 and titled "Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection." 2009 and titled "Lord Love You: Works by RA Miller from the Mullis Collection." "All Creatures Great and Small," and Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University titled, "Amen, Amen: Religion and Southern Self-Taught Artists in the Mullis Collection." VISIT MY EBAY STORE FOR MORE FOLK ART! and visit my Gallery website