Leave a Legacy in Bronze

Sara Miller,Portrait Sculptor

Sara Miller's subjects have included philanthropist, business 
leaders, Nobel Prize winners, the famous and not famous. Articles
about Sara have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago 
Sun Times, Today's Chicago Woman and more.  However, one 
of her most cherished writings is a response from Gwendolyn
Brooks, former Poet Laureate of Illinois, upon seeing herself 
cast in bronze. 

"Sara, Thank you for extending my life; for sending
my life into bronze and beyond - as a clean pride
 not to be tamed, not corralled.

 You see beyond seeables, see beyond flesh,
 beyond motion, images, beyond the hard burnings.
 No longer walking through rooms, I shall be gone
 and not gone."
 
c1994. Gwendelyn Brooks

A lifetime Chicago resident, Sara Miller, began sculpting
in her 60's, after a successful business career, and discovered 
a natural talent for portrait sculpture in bronze.

Her first two commissions, bronze busts of Nobel Laureate Saul 
Bellow and of former Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, 
are permanently located outside the Authors' Room of the 
Harold Washington Library Center in Downtown Chicago. 

A second casting of each was purchased by the Smithsonian
Institution for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.  The 
following pages will acquaint you with Sara Miller and her work.




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Sara Miller
Palette and Chisel
Academy of Fine Art
1012 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL   60610
portraitinbronze@aol.com