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

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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

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in 1925, she trained with John Cotton Dana 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 Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s attention in 1933, when she and Holger Cahill (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

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), and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 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

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, 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 * Francis Chapin * Emma Lu Davis * Morris Graves * Joseph Hirsch * Donal Hord * Charles Howard *

Rico Lebrun Rico Federico Lebrun (December 10, 1900 – May 9, 1964) was an Italian-American painter and sculptor. Early life Lebrun was born in 1900 in Naples, Italy. Before he started his art career he began a two-year service in the Italian Army durin ...

* Jack Levine * Helen Lundeberg * Fletcher Martin * Octavio Medellin *

Knud Merrild Knud Merrild Nielsen (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1954) was a Danish painter, sculptor and ceramicist. Life Merrild was born in Selling, Ødum parish, in Favrskov Municipality. He worked in ceramics with the potter G. A. Eifrig at the Køb ...

* Mitchell Siporin * Everett Spruce

1946: ''Fourteen Americans''

David Aronson David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University. Biography Aronson was born in Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923 to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a rabbi. He taught at Boston Unive ...

* Ben Culwell *

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky ( ; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, ; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian Americans, Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his life as a national of the ...

* David Hare * Loren MacIver *

Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American Abstract Expressionism, abstract expressionist Painting, painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of th ...

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist, furniture designer and Landscape architecture, landscape architect whose career spanned six decades from the 1920s. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Grah ...

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

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Saul Steinberg Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914, Rm. Sărat, Romania – May 12, 1999, New York City) was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for ''The New Yorker'', most notably ''View of the World from 9th Avenue''. He described himself ...

Mark Tobey Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosop ...

1952: ''Fifteen Americans''

William Baziotes William Baziotes (June 11, 1912 – June 6, 1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Life and career Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Greek parents Angelos and Stella, Baziotes w ...

* 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 ...

Herbert Ferber Herbert Ferber (April 30, 1906 – August 20, 1991) was an American painter and sculptor. He is an abstract expressionist and is considered a vital member of the New York School." Background Herbert Ferber Silvers was born on April 30 ...

* Joseph Glasco * Herbert Katzman *

Frederick Kiesler Frederick Jacob Kiesler (September 22, 1890 – December 27, 1965) was an Austrian-American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor. Biography Kiesler was born Friedrich Jacob Kiesler in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empir ...

* Irving Kriesberg *

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 fro ...

Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "Drip painting, drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household ...

Herman Rose Herman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport (November 6, 1909 – December 4, 2007), an United States, American Painting, painter and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting "74t ...

Mark Rothko Mark Rothko ( ; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903February 25, 1970) was an American abstract art, abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular reg ...

Clyfford Still Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American Painting, painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediat ...

* Bradley Tomlin *

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1956: ''Twelve Americans''

* Ernest Briggs * 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,

Fritz Glarner Fritz Glarner (July 20, 1899 – September 18, 1972) was a Swiss-American painter. He was a proponent of Concrete Art movement and a disciple of Piet Mondrian. Work Glarner was a leading proponent of so-called Concrete Art, an artists' m ...

Philip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplis ...

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* Ibram Lassaw *

Seymour Lipton Seymour Lipton (6 November 1903 – 15 December 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on s ...

* Jose de Rivera *

Larry Rivers Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg; August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002) was an American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was on ...

1959: ''Sixteen Americans''

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* Wally Hedrick * James Jarvaise *

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Ellsworth Kelly Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, col ...

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* Landes Lewitin * Richard Lytle * Robert Mallary *

Louise Nevelson Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast, ...

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* Julius Schmidt *

Richard Stankiewicz Richard Stankiewicz (1922–1983) was an American sculptor, known for his work in scrap metal. Stankiewicz was born in Philadelphia, but spent his formative years in Detroit. He began painting and sculpting while in the United States Navy, in ...

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career befor ...

* Albert Urban * Jack Youngerman

''Americans 1963''

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* Chryssa * Sally Drummond * Edward Higgins *

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* Gabriel Kohn * Michael Lekakis * Richard Lindner * Marisol *

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* 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 Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depressi ...

, 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,

Adolph Gottlieb Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painterChilvers, Ian & Claves-Smith, John eds., ''Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. pp. 282-283 who also m ...

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning ( , ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married pa ...

Barnett Newman Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American painter. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His paintings explore the sense ...

Theodoros Stamos Theodoros Stamos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Στάμος) (December 31, 1922 – February 2, 1997) was a Greek-American painter. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters (the so-called " Irasc ...

* Bradley Tomlin *

Jack Tworkov Jack Tworkov (15 August 1900 – 4 September 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Early life and education Yakov Tworkovsky, was born in Biała Podlaska on the border between Poland and the Russian Empire. His father was a t ...

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:

, honorary

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* 1982:

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* 1982: ''A Curator's Choice, 1942-63: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller'', Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City. * 1983:

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governor's award

Books

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

Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich "Rocky" Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was the 41st vice president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. He was also the 49th governor of New York, serving from 1959 to 197 ...

, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

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: Hudson Hills Press. . * 1983: ''Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings''. With Eleanor Price Mather.

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. . * 1984: ''Art at Work: The Chase Manhattan Collection''. With Willard C. Butcher,

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Robert Rosenblum Robert Rosenblum (July 24, 1927 – December 6, 2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th centuries. Biography Rosenblum wa ...

, and J. Walter Severinghaus, the project manager for

. Marshall Lee, ed.

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. . * 1985: ''Art for the Public: The Collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey''. With Sam Hunter.

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: The Authority. .

References

;Further reading *

External links

Dorothy C. Miller
s collection at the

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