Peter Miller

Henrietta Myers Miller (1913–1996), known professionally as Peter Miller, was an American surrealist painter. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Miller has been called a "forgotten woman of American Modernism".

She attended the Arlington Hall Junior School for Women after which she studied painting Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She took his last name and began signing her work using the name Peter Miller to avoid disclosing her gender.

Miller had solo exhibitions at Julien Levy Gallery in 1944 and 1945. Her work was included in The Women, a June 1945 exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century Gallery that featured over thirty women artists. Others featured in the show included Lee Krasner and Nell Blane.

Notable exhibitions

The Women, Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery