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.
Two moths against the textured grain of white pine — the wood grain doing double duty as atmosphere and as material, the moths picked out in warm color against the pale ground. A smaller piece, but one that rewards the closest looking. The title is exact: this is what a summer night feels like.
woodcut on paper, edition 26/40, 12 x 23 in.