Pictures and albums about Milles published in travel

Carl Milles(1875-1955) was born near Uppsala, Sweden. He became an apprentice to a cabinetmaker and studied sculpture at evening classes. Milles won a scholarship to the Technical School in Stockholm. From Sweden he went to Paris where he attended The Sorbonne, and was eventually admitted to the 1899 Salon. Milles later worked in Auguste Rodin's studio. Rodin strongly influenced Milles' earlier work. In 1931 he held an exhibition at the Art Museum in St Louis, showing 44 pieces, and later became the Artist in residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. The Millesgården in suburban Stockholm then became his studio until his death in 1955. This is his splendid Orpheus fountain at the entrance to the Stockholm Concert Hall. He won a competition for the commission in 1926 with a study for the central Orpheus figure, but in the finished conception of a decade later he had replaced abstract plant forms around the base with eight standing figures for placement in a circle below the hovering Orpheus' playing on the lyre given to him by Apollo. Two of the eight figures are also found (among other Milles sculptures) at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, where I have often photographed them. (See my album Outdoors in the Missouri Winter, or click on the link in the comment below.)