MILLER, GODFREY (1893-1964)

**ON HOLD - EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST**
 
"Blue Landscape (Fig Tree Series)" (c.1940) 
oil on board
22.5 x 28.5cm
signed lower right, JH426
*private collection, Sydney
 
Miller was an important, award-winning New Zealand Modernist. As a committed exponent of European abstraction and teacher, Godfrey Miller was an influential figure in art circles in Sydney throughout the 1950s. Miller was born in New Zealand, apprenticed to architect firm Salmond & Salmond in Dunedin and attended the Otago School of Art in Dunedin (1910). He became registered with the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 1917 and moved to Melbourne in 1918, enrolling at the National Gallery School, associating with the revitalised Australian Art Association and becoming a member of the Victorian Artists Society (1929). He is best known for his unique style of abstraction and is represented in all Major National Galleries in Australia.