Access restrictions |
The Papers may be seen by appointment at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, New York 10019, (212) 708-9436. Access to the papers by qualified researchers is unrestricted, with the exception of certain material in Series III. |
Summary |
Correspondence, general files, notes, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. |
Biographical/historical note |
MoMA curator (1935-1969) and honorary trustee (1984-), art advisor, editor. |
Cite as |
Dorothy C. Miller Papers, [series.file unit]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. |
Source of acquisition |
The Papers were removed from the space at One MacDougal Alley, where Miss Miller maintained an office from 1969 through 1987, and deeded to The Museum of Modern Art for its Archives on October 27, 1986. |
Related collections |
A lengthy oral history of Dorothy Miller as well as additional documentation of her activities after her retirement from The Museum in 1969 can be found at the Archives of American Art. |
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The Papers of Holger Cahill are at the Archives of American Art and in the manuscript division of The New York Public Library. |
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Installation photographs of exhibitions organized by Miss Miller have been removed from these Papers and they can be referred to in the Museum's Photographic Services and Permissions. |
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Exhibition records, additional correspondence, and other documentation concerning Miss Miller's work at the Museum can be found in the Museum's departments of the Registrar and Painting and Sculpture. |
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Correspondence with and related ephemera concerning Dorothy C. Miller and James Lee Byars is included in the Library's Special Collections. |
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Papers concerning Miss Miller's Smith College years, the art collections of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Smith College and the Chase Manhattan Bank are on deposit at the Archives of American Art. |
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The records of The Smith College Museum of Art include information on this aspect of Miss Miller's activities. |
Finding aids |
Available online and in repository. |
Note |
Forms part of: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Museum Archives. Records. |
Contents |
INDEX [Note: the following index cites individuals and art movements mentioned in the Dorothy C. Miller Papers; citations are to series and filing unit number.] -- Abbott, Jere, III.7.a -- ABC art, IV.1 -- Abe, Nobuya, I.22.k(i) -- Alexander, Marie, III.7.a -- Anuszkiewicz, Richard, I.20.c; I.20.e -- Arakowa, Shasaku, I.22.k(i) -- Aronson, David, I.5 -- Atherton, John, I.4.b -- Austin, Darrel, I.3 -- Azuma, Kengiro, I.22.k(i) -- Baltrusaitis, Helene, III.7.a -- Barr, Alfred H.,I.17(n);I.4(n);II.2(n); II.2.a; III.3; IV.4;IV.16.a -- Barr, Mrs. Alfred H., Sr., III.7.a -- Barr, Margaret Scolari, I.9.d; III.7.a; IV.4; IV.16.a -- Barry, Iris, III.7.a -- Bauer, John I.H. (Jack), II.5(n); II.4(n) -- Baziotes, William, I.14.c; I.6 II.4.b; III.7.a -- Benton, Thomas Hart, III.7.a -- Bertrand, Hugnette A., III.7.a -- Bloom, Hyman, I.3 -- Blumenfeld, Jane Cahill, III.7.a -- Bolotowsky, III.7.a -- Bontecou, Lee, I.20.e -- Bowne, James, III.7.a -- Brancusi, III.7.a -- Breinin, Raymond, I.3 -- Briggs, Ernest, I.9.f -- Brocks, Sam Houston, III.7.a -- Brooks, James, I.9.f; III.7.a -- Brown, John, III.7.a -- Buller, Audrey, I.4.b -- Burden, William A.M., III.4 -- Bush, Doris, III.7.a -- Byars, James Lee, III.7.a -- Cahill, Holger, I.8(n); I.8.c; I.3.b; II.5.e; III.7.b; IV.4 -- Calcagno, Lawrence, III.8.b -- Calder, Alexander, I.23 -- Canaday, John, I.15.d; III.5 -- Carl, Helen, III.7.b -- Cartier, Ferdinand, I.4.b -- Cashwan, Samuel, I.3.a -- Cassidy, Victor M., III.7.a -- Castelli, Leo, I.9.d -- Chapin, Francis, I.3 -- Charlton, Mariette, III.7.b -- Chercher, Betty, III.7.b -- Chiba, Sho, I.22.m(i) -- Chryssa, I.20.e -- Church, Frederic. See Olana. -- Clark, Stephen C., IV.4 -- Cobb, Elizabeth. See Parkinson. -- Coggeshall, Calvert, III.7.b -- Coppel, Jeane, III.7.a -- Corbett, Edward, I.6.a; III.7.a; III.8.b -- Cornell, Joseph, III.7.b -- Cox, Daphne, III.7.b -- Crowninshield, Frank, I.3.d -- Culwell, Ben L., I.5 -- Dada, IV.6 -- Davies, Arthur B., III.7.b -- Davis, Emma Lu, I.3.a; III.7.b -- Davis, Stuart, III.7.b -- DeFeo, Jay, I.15.k, III.7.b -- Del Junco, Emilio, III.7.b -- de Menil, John, III.7.b -- Dickinson, Edwin, I.19; I.6.a; II.4.b; III.7.b -- Dobashi, Jun, I.22.m(i) -- Domoto, Hisao, I.22.k(ii) -- Dows, Olin, III.7.b -- Drummond, Sally Hazelet, I.20.c; I.20.e -- Eftimiadi, Froso, III.7.c -- Esman, Rosa, V.2 -- Faure, Elie, IV.14 -- Feininger, Julia, III.7.c -- Ferber, Herbert, I.6 -- Force, Juliana, II.5(n); I.23.b -- Francis, Sam, I.14.c; I.9.f -- French, Leonard, I.4.b -- Froso, Eftimiadi, III.7.c -- Genauer, Emily, III.10 -- Glarner, Fritz, I.9.f; II.4.b -- Glasco, Joseph, I.6.a -- Goldwater, Robert J., I.16(n) -- Goodrich, Lloyd, II.5(n); II.4(n) -- Goodwin, Nancy, III.7.a -- Goodwin, Philip, III.7.c -- Goodyear, A. Conger, IV.4. -- Gorky, Arshile, I.5 -- Gowing, Lawrence, III.7.c -- Graves, Morris, I.3; II.4.b; IV.8 -- Gregory, Peter, III.7.c -- Guston, Philip, I.9.f; III.7.c -- Hadzi, Mrs. Dimitri (Molly), I.22.g -- Hague, Raoul, I.9.f -- Harari, Hananiah, I.4.b -- Hare, David, I.5 -- d'Harnoncourt, Reň, I.9.d -- d'Harnoncourt, Sarah (Mrs. Reň), III.7.c -- Hart, Pop, III.7.c -- Hartigan, Grace, I.9.f; III.7.c -- Hasegawa, Shoichi, I.22.m(i) -- Haviland, Marion, III.7.c -- Hedrick, Wally, I.15.g; I.15.k -- Hemingway, Ernest, III.11 -- Higgins, Edward, I.20.e -- Hillman, Kay, III.7.c -- Hirsch, Joseph, I.3, IV.3a -- Hord, Donal, I.3 -- Howard, Charles, I.3 -- Hunter, Sam, IV.17 -- Hurd, Peter, I.24b -- Imai, Toshimitsu, I.22.m(ii) -- Indiana, Robert, I.20.c; I.20.e -- Inokuma, Genchiro, I.22.k(ii) -- Irvine, Rosalind, II.3(n) -- Izumi, Shigeru, I.22.k(ii) -- James, Mrs. Bessie R., III.7.c -- Janson, H. W., I.16(n) -- Jarvaise, James, I.15.g; I.15.k -- Jensen, Oliver, III.7.c -- Johns, Jasper, I.22.g; I.15.k -- Johnson, Philip, III.26 -- Johnson, Ray, IV.2.a -- Jones, Betsy, III.7.c -- Joslin, Archie, III.7.c -- Juries, IV.10 -- Kane, John, II.4.b -- Karolik, Maxim, II.5.b -- Kassler, Elizabeth Mock, III.7.c -- Katzman, Herbert, I.6.a -- Kawabata, Minoru, I.22.k(iii) -- Kawashima, Ty (Takahashi), I.22.k(iii) -- Kelly, Ellsworth, I.15.k -- Kiesler, Frederick, I.6.a -- Kimura, Reiji, I.22.k(iii) -- Kito, Akira, I.22.m(ii) -- Klee, Paul, I.24.h -- Kline, Franz, I.9.g -- Kohn, Gabriel, I.20.d-e -- Kriesberg, Irving, I.6 -- Kupferman, Lawrence, I.4.b -- Kusumoto, Masaki, I.22.k(iii) -- Lassaw, Ibram, I.9.g -- LeBrun, Rico, I.3 -- Lekakis, Michael, I.20.f -- Leslie, Alfred, I.15.k -- Levine, Jack, I.3 -- Levy, Julien, III.7.c -- Lewandowski, Edmund, I.4.b -- Lewitin, Landes, I.15.k -- Lieberman, William S., I.24(n); I.24.m(i-ii) [mss]; I.22(n); II.1(n); III.7.c -- Lindner, Richard, I.20.f; I.20.i -- Linhares, Philip, III.7.c -- Lippold, Richard, I.6; III.7.c -- Lipton, Seymour, I.9.g -- Ludgin, Earle, III.7.c -- Lundeberg, Helen, I.3 -- Lux, Theodore, I.4.b -- Lynes, Russell, III.7.e; III.13 -- Lytle, Richard, I.15.k -- Mabry, Thomas, III.7.d -- MacIver, Loren, I.18.b; I.5; III.7.d -- Mallary, Robert, I.20.i; I.15.l -- Marisol, I.20.f -- Martin, Fletcher, I.3 -- Mayor, A. Hyatt, II.5(n) -- McAndrew, John, III.7.d -- McKinney, Laurence, III.7.d -- McShine, Kynaston, III.7.d -- Medellin, Octavio, I.3 -- Merrild, Knud, I.3 -- Minimalism. See, ABC art. -- Miki, Tomio, I.22.g -- Mir̤, Joan, III.11 -- More, Herman, II.5(n) -- Moore, Henry, III.7.d -- Mori, Shoichiro, I.22.m(ii) -- Motherwell, Robert, I.14.d; I.5 -- Myers, John, I.15.d; III.7.d -- Nagare, Masayuki, I.22.k(iv) -- Neikbug, S.E., III.7.d -- Nevelson, Louise, I.18.b; I.15.l -- New York Office of the State Department, III.7.d -- Newman, Barnett, I.14.d -- Niizuma, Minoru, I.22.k(iv) -- Noguchi, Isamu, I.8.a; I.5 -- Ohno, Hidetaka, I.22.m(iii) -- Olana, NY, III.7.d -- Oldenburg, Claes, I.20.d; I.20.f -- Oliver, Katherine, III.7.c -- Olmsted, Harold, III.7.d -- Onoda, Haru, I.22.m(iii) -- Osborn, Elodie Courter, III.7.d -- Osborn, Robert, III.7.d -- Otami, Fumio, I.22.m(iii) -- Papsdorf, Fred, I.4.b -- Parkinson, Elizabeth, III.7.d -- PASITMOMA, III.3.e, III.22 -- Pei, I. M., I.20.d -- Pereira, I. Rice, I.5 -- Perry, Betty Lockett, III.29 -- Picasso, Pablo, III.24 -- Pickens, Alton, I.5; II.4.c; III.7.d -- Pickett, Joseph, II.4.c -- Pindell, Howardena, III.7.e -- Pollock, Jackson, I.6; III.7.d -- Pop art, IV.12 -- Price, C. S., I.5 -- Pulitzer, Joseph, II.5.c -- Rain, Charles, I.4.b -- Rasmussen, Waldo, III.7.d -- Rauschenberg, Robert, I.15.l -- Reinhardt, Ad, I.20.d; I.20.f -- de Rivera, Još, I.9.g -- Rivers, Larry, I.9.c; I.9.g; III.7.d -- Rockefeller, John D., Jr., III.7.d -- Rockefeller, Nelson A. [coll.], I.24; II.6; III.7.d -- Rose, Francis, III.7.d -- Rose, Herman, I.6.b -- Rosenquist, James, I.20.f -- Rosevear, Cora, III.7.a -- Roszak, Theodore J., I.5 -- Rothko, Mark, I.6.b -- Rublee, Mrs. George, III.7.d -- Russell, Morgan, IV.13 -- Saarinen, Aileen, I.24.i -- Sato, Ado, I.22.m(i) -- Sato, Key, I.22.k(v) -- Schainen, H. Jack, III.7.e -- Schempp, Ted, III.7.a -- Schmidt, Julius, I.15.l -- Schneider, Katharine, III.7.e -- Schnizel, Teddy, III.7.e -- Schwitters, Kurt, I.24.f -- Seley, Jason, I.20.f; IV.17 -- Sharrar, Honoř, I.5 -- Shaw, Elizabeth, III.7.e -- Sheeler, Charles, I.2a. -- Shingu, Susumu, I.22.m(iv) -- Simada, Sizu, I.22.m(iv) -- Simpson, David, I.20.d; I.20.f -- Siporin, Mitchell, I.3 -- Sisselman, Mrs. Alan, III.7.e -- Soby, James Thrall, I.20.i; I.9.c-d; II.4(n); III.28; IV.4 -- Somaini, Francesco, IV.14 -- Spencer, Niles, I.7; II.4.c; III.29 -- Spruce, Everett, I.3 -- Stamos, Theodoros, III.7.e -- Stankiewicz, Richard, I.15.l -- Steegmuller, Francis, III.7.e -- Steinberg, Saul, I.5 -- Stella, Frank, I.15.l -- Stern, Alfred Chas., III.7.e -- Stieglitz, Alfred, IV.4 -- Still, Clyfford, I.6 -- Stubbing, Tony, III.7.e -- Suba, Miklos, I.4.b -- Sugai, Kumi, I.22.k(v) -- Sullivan, Mary Quinn, III.7.e -- Tabuchi, Yasukaza (Yasse), I.22.m(v) -- Tadasky (Tada suke kuwayama), I.22.k(vi) -- Takahashi, Shu, I.22.m(v) -- Tanaka, Shu, I.22.m(v) -- Tanaka, Toshiyuki, I.22.m(v) -- Tirana, Mrs. Rifat, III.7.e -- Tobey, Mark, I.5; II.4.c -- Tomioka, Soichiro, I.22.k(vi) -- Tomlin, Bradley Walker, I.6 -- Toyofuko, Tomonori, I.22.k(vi) -- Urban, Albert, I.15.l -- Valentin, Curt, I.6.b; III.7.e -- Venner, Edward, III.7.e -- Wasserman, Jeanne L., IV.16 -- Wasserman, Max, IV.16 -- Wengenroth, Stow, I.4.b -- Wheeler, Monroe, IV.4. -- Whitlock, C.E.H., III.7.e -- Wight, Frederick S., II.4(n) -- Wilfred, Thomas, I.6 -- Williams, Hiram, IV.17 -- Williams, William Carlos, III.7.e -- Yasuda, Haruhiku, I.22.m(v) -- Yoshimura, Masanobu, I.22.k(vi) -- Youngerman, Jack, I.15.l; III.7.e -- Zajac, Jack, III.8.b -- |
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Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981 -- Archives.
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Graves, Morris, 1910-2001 -- Archives.
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Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003 -- Archives.
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Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 -- Archives.
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Spencer, Niles, 1893-1952 -- Archives.
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Archives.
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Art, American -- History -- Sources.
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Art, Japanese -- History -- Sources.
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Curators -- Archives.
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WorldCat no. |
122569190 |
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