MILLER-HAVENS ART
Archive of Sold Male Athletes Paintings
Art As Communicator
Artist's Statement " Painting Exceptional Male Athletes "
The Olympics have been the only venue that unites the entire world in safe confrontation. Today professional sports are a significant part of our culture. They may even be a substitute for war, which so long dominated human affairs. Sports bring people together in competition that does not kill. These contemporary combats and those portrayed by Greek art, Gerome, Manet, Eakins, Bellows and Luks lend themselves to my goal of using art to remark publicly on the complexities of life and culture.
Rather than painting men as idols, or going to the other extreme of infantilizing or bashing them, I mean to portray male athletes not only as possessors of skill but as possessors of unique personalities
vulnerable to all of life's demands. A few are exceptional.
As a feminist I dislike the inequality between men and women. I recognize the biological and psychological differences, but wish to point out the similarities between men and women. In life and sports human beings hope for success, sometimes gain it, fail, pick themselves up, try again to be among the best
and often strive to be part of a team.....Here the boundaries of gender fade.
In Private & Public Collections
Home On A Double Artist's Statement
Collection National Art Museum of Sport Indiana
National Portrait Gallery Collection Washington D.C
La Fuerza y La Compasion Private Collection Florida
Private Collection MA
Private Collection Ma
Artist's Collection
Private Collection R.I
Private Collection
Private Collection MA
Private Collection
A Rhubarb (Carlton Fisk)
Oil on wood 10" x 17" Framed in burgandy-black maple
"Susan Miller-Havens captures the heroic qualities in all her portraits and figure studies with a palette that includes the most subtle of color combinations. Her paintings are as much about the magic of color as the essence of heroism in her subjects."
Richard A. Johnson Curator The Sports Museum of New England
Oil/wax on Baltic birch Private Collection Cambridge MA
Remembering Breugel Private Collection Arlington MA
Oil on canvas Private collection Boston Rescue Mission Boston MA.
Oil on Baltic birch. Collection University of MA Boston MA
Oil on Baltic birch Collection
Oil on canvas Collection University of MA. Boston
Oil on Baltic birch. Private collection Newton MA.
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"She is one of the very few artists that gets down into the soul of her subject and brings that aspect to life on canvas..........remarkably so"
Patrick J. Riley, President The Miami Heat
Art Collector, Miller-Havens Patron
Sports Museum of New England
Collection of Roxbury Youthworks Dorchester MA
Collection Roxbury Youthworks Dorchester MA.
Oil on canvas Private Collection Miami Florida
Oil on canvas
