Saskatchewan Artist

Eva Mendel Miller

Eva Miller was born in 1919 in Recklinghausen, Germany, and escaped Nazi Germany with her family in 1939. Daughter of Fred Mendel, entrepreneur and founder of Saskatoon's Mendel Art Gallery, Miller has been involved her whole life in the world of art as both an artist and a community supporter. She completed some studies in Austria with Joseph Hoffman, and at the Students' Arts League in New York with Hans Hoffmann and George Gross (1939), before moving to Saskatoon with her parents in 1940. There, she became active in the local arts community and encouraged her father to collect art. This pursuit continued and led to the development of the Fred Mendel Collection and the Mendel Art Gallery.

Miller also studied at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal with Goodridge Roberts and Arthur Lismer (1940). Miller's paintings in acrylics, oils, and watercolours have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Canada and France since the early 1940s.

Eva Mendel Miller lives in Calgary, Alberta, and is Honourary Chairperson of the Mendel Art Gallery.