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Dorothy C. Miller

Dorothy C. Miller

American, 1904–2003

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Dorothy Canning Miller was an American art curator 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 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), she was one of the very few women in her time who held a museum position of such responsibility.

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Exhibitions

49 exhibitions

Sep 14, 1936 – Oct 12, 1936

New Horizons in American Art

283 artists · 1 curator

Apr 28, 1937 – May 30, 1937

Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa

1 curator

Apr 27, 1938 – Jul 24, 1938

Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

10 artists · 3 curators

May 24, 1938 – Jul 31, 1938

Three Centuries of American Art

247 artists · 7 curators

Oct 02, 1939 – Nov 01, 1939

Charles Sheeler

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 26, 1940 – Mar 24, 1940

Modern Masters from European and American Collections

25 artists

Apr 03, 1940 – Apr 28, 1940

Four American Traveling Exhibitions

54 artists · 1 curator

Jan 21, 1942 – Mar 08, 1942

Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States

18 artists · 1 curator

Oct 28, 1942 – Nov 29, 1942

The Sculpture of John B. Flannagan

1 artist · 1 curator

Feb 10, 1943 – Mar 21, 1943

Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists

42 artists · 2 curators

Apr 28, 1943 – Jun 13, 1943

Religious Folk Art of the Southwest

6 artists

Nov 17, 1943 – Feb 06, 1944

Romantic Painting in America

123 artists · 1 curator

Oct 24, 1944 – Jan 14, 1945

Lyonel Feininger

1 artist · 1 curator

Sep 10, 1946 – Dec 08, 1946

Fourteen Americans

15 artists · 1 curator

Sep 30, 1947 – Jan 04, 1948

Ben Shahn

1 artist · 2 curators

Jan 13, 1948 – Mar 21, 1948

New Acquisitions

37 artists · 1 curator

Dec 23, 1948 – Mar 13, 1949

American Paintings from the Museum Collection

115 artists · 1 curator

Aug 29, 1950 – Oct 15, 1950

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

72 artists · 1 curator

Feb 13, 1951 – May 13, 1951

Recent Acquisitions

14 artists · 1 curator

Apr 09, 1952 – Jul 27, 1952

15 Americans

15 artists · 1 curator

May 06, 1952 – Jun 08, 1952

Recent Acquisitions

36 artists · 1 curator

Aug 12, 1952 – Sep 21, 1952

Works from the Museum Collection

29 artists · 1 curator

Jun 23, 1953 – Oct 04, 1953

Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

100 artists · 2 curators

Apr 21, 1954 – Jun 06, 1954

Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

41 artists · 1 curator

Jun 22, 1954 – Aug 15, 1954

Niles Spencer: A Retrospective Exhibition

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 19, 1954 – Feb 06, 1955

XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

260 artists

Nov 30, 1955 – Feb 22, 1956

Recent Acquisitions

44 artists

May 30, 1956 – Sep 08, 1956

Twelve Americans

12 artists · 1 curator

Jan 29, 1957 – Feb 24, 1957

Drawings Recently Acquired for the Museum Collection

43 artists · 1 curator

Mar 14, 1957 – Apr 30, 1957

Recent American Acquisitions

46 artists · 1 curator

Nov 13, 1957 – Jan 05, 1958

Recent Acquisitions

37 artists

May 13, 1959 – Aug 16, 1959

Recent Sculpture U.S.A.

66 artists · 2 curators

May 28, 1959 – Sep 08, 1959

The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959

17 artists · 1 curator

Sep 15, 1959 – Nov 01, 1959

New Talent XII: Ronnie Solbert

1 artist · 3 curators

Dec 16, 1959 – Feb 17, 1960

16 Americans

16 artists · 1 curator

Dec 03, 1960 – Jan 08, 1961

Birds and Beasts from the Museum of Modern Art

26 artists · 2 curators

May 14, 1962 – Sep 18, 1962

Picasso in the Museum of Modern Art: 80th Birthday Exhibition

1 artist · 2 curators

May 23, 1962 – Aug 26, 1962

Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure

74 artists · 3 curators

May 22, 1963 – Aug 18, 1963

Americans 1963

15 artists · 1 curator

Feb 16, 1965 – Apr 25, 1965

Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

87 artists

Dec 09, 1965 – Mar 21, 1966

Around the Automobile

21 artists

Apr 06, 1966 – Jun 12, 1966

Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

70 artists · 2 curators

Oct 19, 1966 – Jan 02, 1967

The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture

46 artists · 2 curators

Feb 01, 1967 – Sep 04, 1967

Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist

1 artist · 1 curator

Mar 17, 1967 – Jun 04, 1967

Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

37 artists · 2 curators

Jun 28, 1967 – Sep 24, 1967

The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

107 artists · 2 curators

Jan 17, 1968 – Mar 04, 1968

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

55 artists · 1 curator

Jun 18, 1968 – Aug 25, 1968

Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

16 artists · 1 curator

May 28, 1969 – Sep 01, 1969

Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

119 artists · 1 curator