Dan Miller has been making art from Maine materials — white pine, the state tree, and driftwood from the beaches near his isolated studio — for decades. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958, graduated from PAFA the following year, and has served as a faculty member at PAFA since 1964, teaching art history, painting, and printmaking.
White pines reaching toward a full August moon — Miller's signature material doing everything it needs to do here. The vertical format gives the trees room to breathe, and the moon at the center is rendered with a simplicity that is harder to achieve than it looks.
woodcut on paper, edition 27/35, 18 x 32 in.