Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876-1952)
Department Store 1930
etching 5 x 7, signed; ed. 35
Philadelphia Society of Etchers 1930, Fifty Prints of the Year 1931-32
UAM 1992.136

Miller began depicting women shopping before the Depression and continued throughout the 1930s. "Women shoppers is a theme that has always interested me. The particular aspects of shopping activities, of life going on, of the supplying of material necessities -- lies on the surface; in addition to this there is the motive of allure in personal adornment, as well as in the furnishing of the home, which may give a finishing touch of the faintly exotic, of the romantic, to the subject. Further, it takes place in public and can be freely observed."