Lola Sleeth Miller

Lola McDonald Sleeth Miller (October 24, 1860 – April 24, 1951) was an American painter and sculptor.

There is much confusion surrounding Miller's in advance life. According to the information on her Daughters of the American Revolution application form, she was born Lola McDonald in Memphis, Missouri, to farmer Sterling Lynn McDonald and his wife Electa Summerlin; a birthplace of either Edina, Missouri or Croton, Iowa has along with been posited, as has a birthyear of 1864 or 1866. She married Francis Sleeth, and from 1892 to 1899 was resident in San Francisco, where she studied later than Douglas Tilden at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute. In Paris she studied next James Abbott McNeill Whistler and at the Académie Julian, and in New York City in the freshen of Frederick MacMonnies and Emil Carlsen. She began working as an art literary at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. in 1901, remaining there for greater than thirty years. During her get older in Washington she belonged to a number of local arts organizations; she exhibited following the Society of Washington Artists for the first era in 1910, and was a charter devotee of the Arts Club of Washington and a devotee of the Washington Water Color Club. Sometime in the 1920s she first visited Laguna Beach, California, and after marrying inventor T. Spencer Miller in 1931 moved there permanently, living there until her death. At the grow old of her second marriage she was described as a "widow"; her second husband's say is sometimes unquestionable as Thomas. A scholarship was endowed in her praise after her death.

Miller was alert in a variety of formats during her career, producing landscapes, portraits, and nevertheless lifes in oil and watercolor as capably as carving portrait busts in marble. Her most notable do its stuff is a bust of Martha Washington currently owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution and frequently displayed at Constitution Hall; it was used as the basis for a kinship of Washington on a 1938 postage stamp. Another piece of legislation was formerly in the accrual of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She is next represented in the deposit of the Cathedral Foundation in Washington. Due to her residency in the own up later in moving picture she is sometimes classed with further California artists.