Hele Miller

Artist Details

• First Name Hele
• Middle Name Adele
• Maiden Name Lerch
• Alternate Name(s) Helen Miller Shaw
• Surname Miller
• Spouse’s Full Name married 1945: Harry Tracy Shaw
• Previous Spouse(s) married 1912/1917: Walter Heinrich Miller
• Names and Birth Years of Children 2 daughters, 3 sons
• Birth Date September 28, 1891
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date July 11, 1982
• Death Place St. Petersburg, Florida
• Residence(s) Glen Ellyn, Illinois
  
  1931: 9330 Winchester Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  4937 Dorchester Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  4701 16^th St. North, St. Petersburg, Florida
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Glen Ellyn, Illinois
• Categories Sculptor
• Relevant Travel Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Lorado Taft for five years
  
  Lewis Institute
  
  Wheaton College
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History January 26-February 21, 1897: Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Agnes Henkel, plaster; Memorial Sketch: The Cobbler Group, plaster; The Home Seeker, plaster
  
  1916: Chicago Society of Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1916: Annual Exhibition of the Art Students League of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1928: Woman's World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: Revells [solo; 30 works]
  
  Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 1931
  
  1932: Art Institute of Chicago; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 1931 [during Republican Convention]
  
  State Art Gallery, Springfield, Illinois; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 1931
  
  All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts Inc.
  
  Vanderpoel Ridge Art Association
• Collections Vanderpoel Museum, Chicago, Illinois
• Memberships Vanderpoel Art Association, Chicago, Illinois
  
  All-Illinois Society of Fine Artists, Chicago, Illinois
• Awards 1938: gold medal, All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts Inc. Head of American Manhood
• Other Occupation(s) 1914-1917: Worked with Lorado Taft – did 18 of the figures in his The Fountain of Time
  
  radio show on art appreciation
  
  wrote poetry
  
  summers 1917, 1918: taught dance and art, Experimental School of Peterboro
  
  wrote and illustrated children’s stories
• Biography parents:  William Linus and Blanche Helen Belmont Lerch