Dorothy C. Miller
♀ American, 1904–2003
Dorothy worked at MoMA from about 1936 to 1969 as Curator and Installer , and she was head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1946–1949 .
49 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
New Horizons in American Art
14 September to 12 October 1936
Stuart Davis, Dorothy C. Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and James Rosenquist, among others, were involved.
Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa
28 April to 30 May 1937
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller and Douglas C. Fox were involved.
Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
27 April to 24 July 1938
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller, Henri Rousseau and John Kane, among others, were involved.
Three Centuries of American Art
24 May to 31 July 1938
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
26 January to 24 March 1940
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.
3–28 April 1940
Dorothy C. Miller, Arshile Gorky, Morris Graves and Rufino Tamayo, among others, were involved.
Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States
21 January to 8 March 1942
Dorothy C. Miller, Morris Graves, Jack Levine and Rico Lebrun, among others, were involved.
The Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
28 October to 29 November 1942
Dorothy C. Miller and John Bernard Flannagan were involved.
Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists
10 February to 21 March 1943
Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper and Dorothy C. Miller, among others, were involved.
Religious Folk Art of the Southwest
28 April to 13 June 1943
Edward Weston, Dorothy C. Miller, Ansel Adams and Patrocino Barela, among others, were involved.
17 November 1943 to 6 February 1944
George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, John Marin and Edward Hopper, among others, were involved.
Lyonel Feininger
24 October 1944 to 14 January 1945
Lyonel Feininger and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.
Fourteen Americans
10 September to 8 December 1946
Robert Motherwell, Dorothy C. Miller, Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi, among others, were involved.
Ben Shahn
30 September 1947 to 4 January 1948
Ben Shahn, Dorothy C. Miller and James Thrall Soby were involved.
13 January to 21 March 1948
Georges Braque, André Derain, Juan Gris and George Grosz, among others, were involved.
American Paintings from the Museum Collection
23 December 1948 to 13 March 1949
Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
29 August to 15 October 1950
Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
13 February to 13 May 1951
Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Henry Moore and Dorothy C. Miller, among others, were involved.
15 Americans
9 April to 27 July 1952
Jackson Pollock, Dorothy C. Miller, Frederick Kiesler and Mark Rothko, among others, were involved.
6 May to 8 June 1952
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.
Works from the Museum Collection
12 August to 21 September 1952
Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, among others, were involved.
Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
23 June to 4 October 1953
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
21 April to 6 June 1954
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and George Grosz, among others, were involved.
22 June to 15 August 1954
Dorothy C. Miller and Niles Spencer were involved.
XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
30 November 1955 to 22 February 1956
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.
Twelve Americans
30 May to 8 September 1956
Dorothy C. Miller, Larry Rivers, Sam Francis and Philip Guston, among others, were involved.
Drawings Recently Acquired for the Museum Collection
29 January to 24 February 1957
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.
Recent American Acquisitions
14 March to 30 April 1957
Max Ernst, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Motherwell and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
13 November 1957 to 5 January 1958
Paul Klee, Ben Shahn, Giorgio de Chirico and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.
Recent Sculpture U.S.A.
13 May to 16 August 1959
Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Dorothy C. Miller and Larry Rivers, among others, were involved.
The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959
28 May to 8 September 1959
Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dorothy C. Miller and Willem de Kooning, among others, were involved.
15 September to 1 November 1959
Dorothy C. Miller, Alicia Legg, Peter Selz and Ronni G. Solbert were involved.
16 Americans
16 December 1959 to 17 February 1960
Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Dorothy C. Miller, among others, were involved.
3 December 1960 to 8 January 1961
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.
Picasso in the Museum of Modern Art: 80th Birthday Exhibition
14 May to 18 September 1962
Pablo Picasso, William S. Lieberman and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.
Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure
23 May to 26 August 1962
William S. Lieberman, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller and Larry Rivers, among others, were involved.
Americans 1963
22 May to 18 August 1963
Claes Oldenburg, Dorothy C. Miller, James Rosenquist and Robert Indiana, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
16 February to 25 April 1965
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Around the Automobile
9 December 1965 to 21 March 1966
Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Dubuffet and Edward Hopper, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
6 April to 12 June 1966
André Derain, George Grosz, Stuart Davis and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, were involved.
The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
19 October 1966 to 2 January 1967
William S. Lieberman, Dorothy C. Miller, Shusaku Arakawa and Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama), among others, were involved.
Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist
1 February to 4 September 1967
Alexander Calder and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.
Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection
17 March to 4 June 1967
José Clemente Orozco, Dorothy C. Miller, Diego Rivera and Roberto Matta, among others, were involved.
The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
28 June to 24 September 1967
Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
17 January to 4 March 1968
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
18 June to 25 August 1968
Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, André Derain and Gaston Lachaise, among others, were involved.
Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
28 May to 1 September 1969
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.