biography of Evylena Nunn MILLER (1888-1966)

Birth place: Mayfield, KS

Death place: Santa Ana, CA

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA; Santa Ana, CA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, lecturer, teacher

Studied: Anna Hills, Hannah Tempest Jenkins at Pomona Col. (A.B.); Berkshire Summer School of Art; Univ. Calif.; ASL; Japan

Exhibited: Calif. State Fair, 1925 (prize), 1930; NGA, 1928; Women's Cl., Hollywood, 1930 (prize); Festival All. A., 1934 (prize); Intl. Aeronautical A. Exh., LACMA, 1937 (prize); Biltmore Salon; Ainslie Gal.; Kieritz Gal.; De Vannes Gal.; San Diego FA Soc.; Bowers Mem. Mus.; CPLH; Wichita AA; Ebell Cl. (solo); Long Beach Municipal A. Gal; Laguna Beach AA, 1953 (prize); Death Valley Exh., 1954 (prize).

Member: NAWA; Laguna Beach AA; Women Painters of the West (pres. emeritus, 1946-); Soc. for Sanity in Art; A. of the Southwest; Los A. AA.; Fnd. Western A; Calif. AC.

Work: Smithsonian Inst.; Pomona Col.; Hollywood Women's Cl.; Ferris Seminary, Yokohama; Women's Christian Col., Tokyo & Kobe, Japan; Chinese YMCA, San F., Cal.; First Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana, Cal.; Bowers Mere. Mus., Santa Ana, Cal.

Comments: Illustr., Pomona Col. Lectures: Art and Travel. Position: artist, Arrow-Bears Park Assoc.; dir., Sec., Bowers Mem. End., Santa Ana, Cal. Teaching: Public Schools, 1911-c.1922. Publications; Travel Tree; Granite and Sagebrush, 1954.

Sources: WW59; WW25; WW47.