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Title:The Fitting Room
Artist:Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, Oneida, New York 1876–1952 New York, New York)
Date:1931
Medium:Oil and tempera on canvas, mounted on Masonite
Dimensions:28 x 34 in. (71.1 x 86.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1931
Object Number:31.117
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left center): Hayes Miller 1931
[Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York, 1931; sold to MMA]
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. "Kenneth Hayes Miller," November 16–December 5, 1931, no catalogue?
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary American Paintings from the Museum's Collection," May 8, 1939–January 1, 1940, no catalogue.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Paintings Since Sargent, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 4–31, 1940, brochure no. 28.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "This is Our City: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, Presented for the Greater New York Fund," March 11–April 13, 1941, no. 60.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary Painting in the United States," April 19–27, 1941, no. 123.
Mexico City. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," June 12–July 9, 1941, unnumbered cat. (p. 85).
Santiago. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," September 6–October 5, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Lima. Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," November 5–30, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Quito. Universidad Central de Ecuador. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," December 1941, unnumbered cat.
American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. "Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards," May 22–June 30, 1947.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art and the Well-Dressed Woman," February 18–March 20, 1949, no catalogue.
Art Students League of New York. "Kenneth Hayes Miller: An Exhibition Commemorating His Thirty-Eighth Year as Instructor at the Art Students League," November 6–26, 1949.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 9).
Madison. Wisconsin State Historical Society. April 1–30, 1952.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "Kenneth Hayes Miller: His Pupils and Associates," March 29–May 10, 1953, no. 21.
Nashville. Watkins Institute. "In Memoriam," October 1955.
Chattanooga, Tenn. George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art. "In Memoriam," November 1955.
American Federation of Arts circulating exhibition. "In Memoriam," continued to multiple venues, December 1955–September 1956.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Huntington, N.Y. Heckscher Museum of Art. "The Image in Twentieth Century America," September 14–October 27, 1968, no. 29.
New York. Zabriskie Gallery. "Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876–1952)," October 6–31, 1970.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "The Whitney Studio Club and American Art, 1900–1932," May 23–September 3, 1975.
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 25–December 31, 1977, no. 11.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "La Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 28–August 23, 1978, no. 11 (as "Le Salon d'Essayage").
New York. Zabriskie Gallery. "Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876–1952)," March 6–31, 1979, no. 15.
Munich. Haus der Kunst. "Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980," November 14, 1981–January 31, 1982, no. 138.
Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Art Museum. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–April 21, 1985, unnumbered cat. (p. 83).
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 5–June 30, 1985, unnumbered cat.
New York. National Academy of Design. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 16–September 1, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Evanston, Ill. Terra Museum of American Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 15–November 10, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 12, 1985–January 19, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–March 30, 1986, unnumbered cat.
St. Paul. Minnesota Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 20–June 8, 1986, unnumbered cat.
New-York Historical Society. "Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York," June 21–September 2, 2013.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art: Kenneth Miller Show." New York Times (November 17, 1931), p. 30, calls it "In the Fitting Room".
Creative Art 9 (December 1931), ill. p. 498.
Alan Burroughs. Kenneth Hayes Miller. New York, 1931, p. 21.
"Kenneth Hayes Miller: Rehn Galleries." Art News 30 (November 28, 1931), p. 10, generally discusses the paintings included in Exh. New York 1931.
Edward Alden Jewell. "The Metropolitan's New Policy: Recent Acquisition of Fifteen Works by Native Living Artists Symptomatic of Revised Trend—Is the Group Representative?" New York Times (June 26, 1932), p. X6.
"The Art of Kenneth Hayes Miller." London Studio 6 (July 1933), p. 42, ill.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Kenneth H. Miller Exhibits His Art." New York Times (February 1, 1935), p. 17.
Harry B. Wehle. "National Art Week and the Museum: Trends in American Painting." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (November 1940), ill. p. 11.
E [dward]. A [lden]. J [ewell]. "Academy and Institute." New York Times (May 25, 1947), p. X10.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Inductions Today by Two Art Groups." New York Times (May 22, 1947), p. 27.
"Museum Shows Fashions From Egypt to Today." New York Herald Tribune (February 18, 1949), p. 14.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 37.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures. Vol. 17, album W, Twentieth-Century American Painters. New York, 1950, unpaginated, no. 8, ill. (color).
Dorothy Grafly. "The Weathervane: Two Centuries of American Painting." American Artist 18 (April 1954), p. 66.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 102–3, ill.
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, fig. 306.
Marshall B. Davidson. The American Heritage History of the Artists' America. New York, 1973, p. 304, ill.
Lincoln Rothschild. To Keep Art Alive: The Effort of Kenneth Hayes Miller, American Painter (1876-1952). Philadelphia, 1974, fig. 73.
Lawrence Alloway. "Isabel Bishop, the Grand Manner and the Working Girl." Art in America 63 (September–October 1975), p. 62, ill.
Helen A. Harrison inTwentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 20, no. 11, ill.
Helen A. Harrison inLa Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Brussels, 1978, unpaginated, no. 11, ill., reprints Ref. Harrison 1977.
Lowery Stokes Sims. The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Jacksonville Art Museum. New York, 1984, pp. 10, 71, 82–83, ill.
John Brandenburg. "Museum's Offerings Tell Story of 20th Century America." Daily Oklahoman/Times (May 30, 1985), p. 15.
Ellen Wiley Todd. The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street. Berkeley, 1993, pp. 102, 104, 140, 229, 238, fig. 3.14.
Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
1931
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