Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Miles, Sheila |
Dates & places of birth and death |
b. 1953 |
Relationships |
former Curator of Exhibitions, Curator of Education, Yellowstone Art Museum 2008: teaches art classes at the Desert Academy, Santa Fe. former husband's family farm in Laurel MT |
Titles & Honors |
see resume |
Education |
bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Masters degrees in painting and drawing, Purdue University |
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Miles, Sheila - A Child's World
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Miles, Sheila - Burnin' Love
Gold and bronze colored acrylic painting loosely depicting three large sunflowers plus one much smaller, with green leaves and a stylized background of green and brown tone organic shapes.
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Miles, Sheila - Going Back (to Laurel)
Abstract of a five-limbed figure against a dark red background, and sitting on a brown surface.
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Miles, Sheila - House
In the center of this image, a small building is framed by two trees. The limbs of the trees reach to the top of the image.
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Miles, Sheila - I Live In Two Places
Two houses on boats, with smoke emerging from their chimneys, are posed against a dark red background. The two are linked together by a ladder at the side of each, connected to a ladder above bridging them together.
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Miles, Sheila - Spinner
A female figure depicted in outline somersaults against a muted background of greens and faint yellows. A heavy coating of paint has been deeply incised horizontally in many places, to create a landscape effect. Within the human figure, the same scoring follows its outline to help define its shape. The upper one-third of the background is lighter in color, perhaps to indicate sky above a greener landscape. The figure is so curved that its feet...
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Miles, Sheila - The Laughing Dog
Painting on paper, many amorphous forms against a deep red background. A small purple house-shaped object with three red squares inside it at upper center is flanked by two large green tree-like shapes and other green shapes. At foreground is a flowing blue and red shape, perhaps a small stream that runs from left to right with green plants at its edge. Running across the top is a wide orange strip with purple rounded forms in it. At far right an...
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Miles, Sheila - The Trip up the Mountain
Two human figures entirely in red move in an abstract landscape setting. Dark shapes represent trees and other features.
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Miles, Sheila - Tree Slide
A small red cartoon house with two windows and a door sits at the center of flowing lines radiating outward.
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Miles, Sheila - Trying To Get Somewhere
This striking abstract depicts what appears to be a canoe with a "passenger" having eight arms holding paddles, silhouetted against a dark red background.
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Miles, Sheila - Wheat: Landscape
Closeup sketch of three heads of wheat blowing in the wind with a dark field and row of darker hills along the horizon.
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Miles, Sheila - When the Queen Goes Out, I Like to Soak My Feet
Brightly colored oil painting in a primitive style. A monkey is sitting inside the outline of a house with a snake and cat hanging from its roof. The red-headed queen wearing a gold crown is sitting outside the building to the left. The foreground is bright red with two roughly horizontal streams of darker color. A post is behind the house, with streamers floating from it. A stand of trees is at right, with a cloud and a sliver of moon above.
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