Dorothy Canning Miller

Dorothy Canning Miller (February 6, 1904 – July 11, 2003) was an American art curator and one of the most influential people in American modern art for more than half of the 20th century.

After her retirement from MoMA in 1969, Miller became a trustee and art advisor for Rockefeller University, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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 Jack Levine Helen Lundeberg Fletcher Martin Octavio Medellin

Knud Merrild Mitchell Siporin Everett Spruce

1946: Fourteen Americans

David Aronson Ben Culwell Arshile Gorky David Hare

Loren MacIver Robert Motherwell Isamu Noguchi I. Rice Pereira

Alton Pickens C. S. Price Theodore Roszak Honoré Desmond Sharrer

Saul Steinberg Mark Tobey

1952: Fifteen Americans

William Baziotes Edward Corbett Edwin Dickinson Herbert Ferber

Joseph Glasco Herbert Katzman Frederick Kiesler Irving Kriesberg

Richard Lippold Jackson Pollock Herman Rose Mark Rothko

Clyfford Still Bradley Tomlin Thomas Wilfred

1956: Twelve Americans

Ernest Briggs James Brooks Sam Francis

Fritz Glarner Philip Guston Raoul Hague

Grace Hartigan Franz Kline Ibram Lassaw

Seymour Lipton Jose de Rivera Larry Rivers

1959: Sixteen Americans

Jay DeFeo Wally Hedrick James Jarvaise Jasper Johns

Ellsworth Kelly Alfred Leslie Landes Lewitin Richard Lytle

Robert Mallary Louise Nevelson Robert Rauschenberg Julius Schmidt

Richard Stankiewicz Frank Stella Albert Urban Jack Youngerman

Americans 1963

Richard Anuszkiewicz Lee Bontecou Chryssa Sally Drummond

Edward Higgins Robert Indiana Gabriel Kohn Michael Lekakis

Richard Lindner Marisol Claes Oldenburg Ad Reinhardt

James Rosenquist Jason Seley David Simpson

The New American Painting On an international scale, Miller's most influential show was The New American Painting,