Signed lower left, 'H. Howard Miller' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965. A large, American Impressionist oil study of a young woman wearing an orange blouse and contrasted against a scumbled blue and coral background. A substantial Modernist figural study by this listed, mid-century California painter who exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association and received first prize for his portrait entry at the 1963 Bullock's Fashion Square Art Exhibit. Source: Nancy Dustin Moure, "Publications in California Art No. 11 , Index to California Art Exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1972; 2015 edition"