Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Barse Miller's painting titled "R.F.D." (Rural Free Delivery). Handwritten on negative: R.F.D. by Barse Miller Text from newspaper caption: "R.F.D." -- In Which Barse Miller Turns Historian. Not all history is written. There is a history of forms, and in this picture at the Foundation of Western Art the artist has found analogous forms in three such characteristic American creations as the "Gothic" schoolhouse, the Model T and the rural mail box and recorded them with exceptional fidelity. [Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 1935: C10] Text from negative sleeve: 3092. R.F.D. (Painting - Oil). By Barse Miller for Art Millier. 12/1/35. [Stamped:] Dec 11 1935.
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