Evylena Nunn Miller (July 4, 1888 – February 25, 1966) Landscape painter, illustrator and art teacher Evylena Nunn Miller was born in Mayfield, Kansas where she spent the first fifteen years of her life. In 1903, she moved to Santa Ana, California, graduated from Santa Ana High School in 1908, and received her B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Occidental College and then Pomona College, studying under Anna Althea Hills, Hannah Tempest Jenkins, John F. Carlson, Norwood MacGilvary, and W. A. Griffith. She earned a teaching certificate from UCLA. She also attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Berkshire Summer School of Art. Between 1911 and 1918 Evylena Nunn taught art at Claremont High School, Riverside Girls High School and Santa Ana High School. She subsequently moved to Japan where she taught for two years at a boys' school while studying herself under Araki Jippo. When she returned to the United States in 1923, she married Howard Earl Miller, who shared her love of travel. The couple made their home together in Los Angeles but continued to take extensive journeys. Evylena painted coastal views on the Monterey Peninsula as well as landscapes throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. Captivated by the Native Americans, she made it a goal to paint all of the pueblos of the Southwest. To pursue this dream, she , and pursuing forded rivers, visited indigenous people’s ruins, and climbed high elevations. Ultimately she completed 40 canvases of scenes of the homelands of the Navajo, Apache, Taos, Hopi, Jemez, Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni. She also painted in Japan, China, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Her book about her explorations, Travel Tree, was published in 1933. Evylena’s work is considered part of the “California Scene Painting” movement. She exhibited widely including at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art. In 1956 Evylena became a member of the Board of Directors of the Bowers Memorial Museum in Santa Ana, where she died in 1966. Evylena Nunn Miller was also a member of Women Painters of the West, California Art Club, and the Laguna Art Association. It is uncertain whether she was a juried Artist Member of Carmel Art Association, but she painted often along the Central Coast of California.