Decorative Impressionism is an art historical term that is credited to the art writer Christian Brinton, who first used it in 1911. Brinton titled an article on the American expatriate painter Frederi
Guy Rose. The Blue Kimono. His work has been termed Decorative Impressionism.
Frederick Frieseke. Lady in a Garden.
Richard E. Miller. Girl with a Guitar (Daydreams) (1916-17).
Robert Reid. Girl with Flowers.
Richard E. Miller was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posin
Decorative Impressionism
…and prolific art historian William H. Gerdts to describe the figurative works of not only Frieseke, but some of his Giverny compatriots including Richard E. Miller, Louis Ritman and Robert Reid. The same term has been applied to other Giverny school painters who painted the figure including Guy Rose, Karl Anderson…
Cafe de Nuit, Richard E. Miller, Oil on Canvas, 48+1⁄2" × 67+3⁄8", collection of Terra Museum of American Art
Eva Scott Fenyes with granddaughter Leonora Curtin, Pasadena, c. 1912
Richard E. Miller in his Provincetown studio, 1920s