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 young ospreys standing on the ground, wings slightly spread — rendered in Miller's woodcut technique with the kind of close observation that comes from someone who has spent decades watching the same birds in the same place. An early proof from a small edition.
Woodcut on paper, edition 2/20, 20 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.