Dorothy Canning Miller (February 6, 1904 – July 11, 2003) was an American art

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and one of the most influential people in American modern art for more than half of the 20th century. The first professionally trained curator at the

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(MoMA), she was one of the very few women in her time who held a museum position of such responsibility.

Early life and education

Miller, the daughter of Arthur Barrett Miller and Edith Almena Canning, was born in

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and grew up in

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. After graduating from Smith College in 1925, she trained with

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of the

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, which was then one of the most creative and ambitious museums in the country, and worked there from 1926 to 1929. From 1930 to 1932, she worked for Mrs. Henry Lang cataloging and researching a collection of

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which was to be donated to the

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Career at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1929, did not yet have its own building in the early 1930s and was housed in a series of temporary quarters. Miller first came to director

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's attention in 1933, when she and

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(with whom Miller was living in

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— they married in 1938) were curating the First Municipal Art Exhibition in space donated by the

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. Some of the participating artists wanted to boycott the show after the

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mural ''

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'' was deliberately destroyed during the

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. Miller asked Barr to intercede in the controversy, which he did. Not long after that she put on her "best summer hat" and went to the Museum to ask him for a job. Barr hired her as his assistant curator in 1934 and over the years she progressed through the ranks, becoming Barr's most trusted collaborator and, by 1947, curator of the

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. In 1959, Miller was appointed to the art committee for

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, serving with

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(chief designer for

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), Robert Hale (curator of American painting at the

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(director of the

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), Perry Rathbone (director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), and

In 1968, she was appointed to a commission to choose modern art works for the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY. After her retirement from MoMA in 1969, Miller became a

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and art advisor for Rockefeller University, the

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, and the

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. She was an honorary trustee of MoMA from 1984 until her death in 2003 at age 99.

The ''Americans'' shows

From the early 1940s through the early 1960s, Miller organised six contemporary ''Americans'' shows which introduced a total of ninety artists to the American museum public. In contrast to the usual large group shows, in which hundreds of artists are represented by one work each, Miller devised a format in which larger selections of works by a smaller number of artists were represented in individual galleries. She famously said, "What you try to achieve are climaxes—introduction, surprise, going around the corner and seeing something unexpected, perhaps several climaxes with very dramatic things, then a quiet tapering off with something to let you out alive."

''Americans 1942: 18 Artists From 9 States''

* Darrell Austin * Hyman Bloom * Raymond Breinin * Samuel Cashwan *

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* Emma Lu Davis *

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* Joseph Hirsch *

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* Charles Howard *

Rico Lebrun Rico (Federico) Lebrun (Naples, December 10, 1900 – Malibu, May 9, 1964) was an Italian-American painter and sculptor. Early life Lebrun was born in 1900 in Naples, Italy. He initially studied banking and journalism before taking art classes ...

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Helen Lundeberg Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999) was a Southern Californian painter. Along with her husband Lorser Feitelson, she is credited with establishing the Post-Surrealism, Post-Surrealist movement. Her artistic style changed over the course of her career, ...

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* Octavio Medellin * Knud Merrild * Mitchell Siporin * Everett Spruce

1946: ''Fourteen Americans''

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* Ben Culwell *

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, hy, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of hi ...

* David Hare *

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Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also inc ...

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* I. Rice Pereira * Alton Pickens * C. S. Price * Theodore Roszak *

Honoré Desmond Sharrer Honoré Desmond Sharrer (July 12, 1920 – April 17, 2009) was an American artist. She first received public acclaim in 1950 for her painting ''Tribute to the American Working People'', a five-image polyptych conceived in the form of a Renaissanc ...

Saul Steinberg Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American artist, best known for his work for ''The New Yorker'', most notably '' View of the World from 9th Avenue''. He described himself as "a writer who draws". Biography S ...

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1952: ''Fifteen Americans''

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* Edward Corbett *

Edwin Dickinson Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11, 1891 – December 2, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits, quickly painted landscapes, which he called ''premier coups'', and large, hauntingly enigma ...

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* Joseph Glasco *

Herbert Katzman Herbert Katzman (1923-2004) was an American artist known for his Expressionist paintings. Biography Katzman was born on January 8, 1923, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the United St ...

* Frederick Kiesler *

Irving Kriesberg Irving Kriesberg (March 13, 1919 – November 11, 2009) was an American painter, sculptor, educator, author, and filmmaker, whose work combined elements of Abstract Expressionism with representational human, animal, and humanoid forms. Becau ...

Richard Lippold Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. Life Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from ...

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* Herman Rose *

Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Lat ...

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* Bradley Tomlin *

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1956: ''Twelve Americans''

* Ernest Briggs * James Brooks *

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* Raoul Hague *

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* Seymour Lipton *

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1959: ''Sixteen Americans''

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* James Jarvaise *

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* Landes Lewitin * Richard Lytle *

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* Robert Rauschenberg * Julius Schmidt * Richard Stankiewicz *

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''Americans 1963''

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* Sally Drummond * Edward Higgins * Robert Indiana * Gabriel Kohn * Michael Lekakis * Richard Lindner * Marisol *

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* Jason Seley * David Simpson

''The New American Painting''

On an international scale, Miller's most influential show was ''The New American Painting'', which toured eight European countries in 1958 and 1959. This exhibition significantly changed European perceptions of

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, firmly establishing the importance of contemporary American painting, particularly the American abstract expressionists, for an international audience. ''The New American Painting'' tour showcased eighty-one paintings by seventeen artists: *

* James Brooks *

Sam Francis Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 – November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Early life Sam Francis was born in San Mateo, California,

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* Barnett Newman *

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* Bradley Tomlin *

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Tributes

* "She was a straight shooter, very respectful of the art and the artists and the museum, something you don't get that much of anymore. The ''Americans'' shows set the tone for my time. ... They were exhibitions of what was going on, pointing to the future" –

* "Her eyes were just incredible, smart and very important in the art world. There will never be anyone quite like her again." –

* "She brought sparkle and prestige and credibility to American art." –

* "Miller's career was marked by an uncanny ability to recognize new and innovative artists encompassing many different styles. In a career that spanned more than 60 years, she left many more conservative curators in her wake." – Wendy Jeffers

Awards

Awards and honors in recognition of Dorothy Miller's contributions to museum

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ship included: * 1959: Smith College, honorary

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* 1982:

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, honorary degree * 1982: ''A Curator's Choice, 1942-63: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller'', Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City. * 1983: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture governor's award

Books

(This is an incomplete list.) * 1981: ''The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection''. With Lee Boltin, William Slattery Lieberman, Nelson Rockefeller, and

Manchester (town), Vermont, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press. . * 1983: ''Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings''. With Eleanor Price Mather. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press. . * 1984: ''Art at Work: The Chase Manhattan Collection''. With Willard C. Butcher, David Rockefeller, Robert Rosenblum, and J. Walter Severinghaus, the project manager for

. Marshall Lee, ed. Boston, Massachusetts: E. P. Dutton. . * 1985: ''Art for the Public: The Collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey''. With Sam Hunter (art historian), Sam Hunter. New York City: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, The Authority. .

References

;Further reading *

External links

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