Reuben A. Miller was raised in rural Georgia, on the land where he was born. He worked as a farmer, cotton mill worker and a preacher at the Free Will Baptist Church. Illness caused him to retire and he began creating artwork as a means of spiritual outreach.
R.A. created a hillside environment of whirligigs and tin cut-outs of devils, angels, animals, and even neighbors, such as the immortalized “Oskar”. Reverend Miller used discarded gutters that he flattened out with a hammer for his cut out silhouettes of animals or figures painted with enamel. He often used markers on Masonite to create cave-like drawings of dinosaurs. Some collectors consider Miller’s early prehistoric type work some of his best.
