Artist Albert W. Miller 

Limestone Country—The Old Swimming Hole, a painting on loan from the City of Bedford is on display near the front of the gallery. It is located on the west wall above samples of limestone carvings.

Artistic young Albert W. Miller graduated from Bedford High School (BHS) in 1936.  In the BHS yearbook the description with his senior picture states his ambition was “to have a place in the world of art.”

A locally famous painting, ‘The Old Swimming Hole,’ depicted the blue-green swimming enjoyment of an abandoned stone quarry near Bedford. The painting was commissioned by and presented to the Indiana Limestone Company and hung in their corporate office for two decades.”

His 2009 obituary on Bedford Online said, “Miller’s artwork included non-objective, realistic and abstract styles applied to portraiture, landscape, still life, and figure painting. His mediums included oil, acrylic, watercolor, and collage. During his long career, he operated his own art school in Cincinnati and had gallery representation in New York and throughout the country.

For more on Miller’s life and paintings, click here to go to the November 2016 Times-Mail newspaper Museum Corner article—Art was his life and his language.