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Author:

Hall, Michael D. 1941-  Search this

Glascock, Pat  Search this

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts  Search this

Flint Institute of Arts  Search this

Michael and Barbara Dennos Museum Center (Northwestern Michigan College)  Search this

Subject:

Hall, Michael D 1941- Art collections  Search this

Glascock, Patricia Art collections  Search this

Inlander Collection of Great Lakes Regional Painting (Exhibition) (1996-1997)  Search this

Physical description:

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Catalogs

Biography

In art

Place:

Middle West

United States

Lake states

Lake States

Great Lakes Region

Date:

1996

C1996

20th century

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Regionalism in art  Search this

Painting--Private collections  Search this

Painters  Search this

Call number:

ND222 .P35 1996

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_520328

Author:

Meckler, Adam  Search this

Fresno Art Museum  Search this

Subject:

Meckler, Adam Art collections  Search this

Fresno Art Museum  Search this

Physical description:

80 pages : color illustrations, 1 double map ; 27 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

Amazon River Region

Amazonie

Date:

1992

©1992

Topic:

Indian featherwork--Private collections  Search this

Indian featherwork  Search this

Indian art--Private collections  Search this

Indian art  Search this

Featherwork--Private collections  Search this

Featherwork  Search this

Art indien--Catalogues d'exposition  Search this

Plumes, Travail des--Catalogues d'exposition  Search this

Plumes, Travail des, indien--Catalogues d'exposition  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Call number:

F2230.1.F2 I62 1992

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_432881

Author:

Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903  Search this

Former owner:

Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this

Author:

Frederick Keppel & Co  Search this

Subject:

Way, Thomas R (Thomas Robert) 1861-1913 Art collections  Search this

Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903  Search this

Physical description:

19 pages 24 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Date:

1914

Topic:

Lithography  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Call number:

767.W57 K3 1914

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1027662

Author:

Rhoades, Katharine N. 1885-1965  Search this

Former owner:

Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this

Subject:

Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

pages [21-22] 32 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1918

Topic:

Art--Private collections  Search this

Call number:

708.1.F84 R4 1918

P

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1027928

Author:

Lawrence, Jacob 1917-2000  Search this

Buell, James M  Search this

Subject:

Lawrence, Jacob 1917-2000  Search this

Toussaint Louverture 1743-1803  Search this

Douglas, Aaron Art collections  Search this

United Church Board for Homeland Ministries  Search this

Physical description:

31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 x 23 cm

Type:

Interviews

Catalogs

Art

History

Place:

Washington (D.C.)

New York (State)

New York

Haiti

Date:

1982

©1982

Revolution, 1791-1804

Topic:

African American artists  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

History  Search this

Call number:

ND237.L29A4 1982X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_349921

Creator:

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this

Subject:

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich)  Search this

Cahill, Holger  Search this

Rothko, Mark  Search this

Coggeshall, Calvert  Search this

Hicks, Edward  Search this

Still, Clyfford  Search this

Calder, Alexander  Search this

Gorky, Arshile  Search this

Charlton, Maryette  Search this

Feininger, Lyonel  Search this

Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice)  Search this

Johns, Jasper  Search this

Horwitt, Will  Search this

DeFeo, Jay  Search this

Christo  Search this

Nevelson, Louise  Search this

Sheeler, Charles  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert  Search this

Karpel, Bernard  Search this

Copley, Alfred L.  Search this

Davis, Stuart  Search this

Newman, Barnett  Search this

Sage, Kay  Search this

Byars, James Lee  Search this

Mather, Eleanore Price  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr.  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia  Search this

Hartigan, Grace  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu  Search this

Chryssa  Search this

Levy, Julien  Search this

Asher, Elise  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad  Search this

Scharf, William  Search this

Matisse, Pierre  Search this

Bontecou, Lee  Search this

Canady, John  Search this

Picasso, Pablo  Search this

Guggenheim, Peggy  Search this

Sterne, Hedda  Search this

World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Betty Parsons Gallery  Search this

Rockefeller University  Search this

Smith College. Museum of Art  Search this

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey  Search this

Chase Manhattan Bank  Search this

Municipal Art Exhibition  Search this

Mark Rothko Foundation  Search this

Smith College  Search this

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this

PepsiCo, Inc.  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sketches

Christmas cards

Drawings

Topic:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions  Search this

Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Corporations -- Private collections  Search this

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Folk art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6469

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)215653

AAA_collcode_milldoro

Theme:

Art Theory and Historiography

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_215653

Creator:

Steinitz, Kate Traumann, 1889-1975  Search this

Subject:

Grosz, George  Search this

Höch, Hannah  Search this

Leonardo, da Vinci  Search this

Lissitzky, El  Search this

Nebel, Otto  Search this

Mondrian, Piet  Search this

Schwitters, Kurt  Search this

Berg, Ilse  Search this

Gabo, Naum  Search this

van Biema, Carrie  Search this

Chagall, Marc  Search this

Graeff, Werner  Search this

Berlinische Galerie  Search this

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg  Search this

Bauhaus  Search this

San Francisco Museum of Art  Search this

Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Manuscripts

Journals (accounts)

Collages

Paintings

Greeting cards

Visitors' books

Travel diaries

Topic:

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Curators -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany  Search this

Dadaism  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6251

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)216575

AAA_collcode_steikate

Theme:

Women

Art Theory and Historiography

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_216575

Creator:

Steinitz, Kate Traumann, 1889-1975  Search this

Names:

Bauhaus  Search this

Berlinische Galerie  Search this

Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana  Search this

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg  Search this

San Francisco Museum of Art  Search this

Berg, Ilse  Search this

Chagall, Marc, 1887-  Search this

Gabo, Naum, 1890-1977  Search this

Graeff, Werner, 1901-1978  Search this

Grosz, George, 1893-1959  Search this

Höch, Hannah, 1889-1978  Search this

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519  Search this

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941  Search this

Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944  Search this

Nebel, Otto, 1892-1973  Search this

Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948  Search this

van Biema, Carrie  Search this

Extent:

4.3 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Manuscripts

Journals (accounts)

Collages

Paintings

Greeting cards

Visitors' books

Travel diaries

Date:

circa 1910-2002

Summary:

The papers of artist, collector, librarian, and scholar Kate Steinitz measure 4.3 linear feet and date from circa 1910 to 2002. The collection documents Steinitz's life and career in Germany and the United States through biographical material; correspondence; writings, including manuscripts and travel diaries; exhibition files; personal business records; printed material; travel scrapbooks; artwork; and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of artist, collector, librarian, and scholar Kate Steinitz measure 4.3 linear feet and date from circa 1910 to 2002. The collection documents Steinitz's life and career in Germany and the United States through biographical material; correspondence; writings, including manuscripts and travel diaries; exhibition files; personal business records; printed material; travel scrapbooks; artwork; and photographs.

Biographical material consists of life and travel documents, various membership cards, news clippings, and memorial cards. Also included are letters of recommendation, a resume, and an award from the president of Germany.

Correspondence is with friends, family, colleagues, and various organizations. Artists represented include Carrie van Biema, El Lissitzky, Piet Mondrian, and others. Correspondence with arts organizations include San Francisco Museum of Art, Berlinische Galerie, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and others.

Published writings by Steinitz include articles, books, and book reviews. Unpublished writings include two travel diaries and an illustrated journal, an autobiographical essay with a sketch of the Traumann family tree, manuscripts, lectures, poems, and notes. Writings by others include a guest register with sketches and comments by visitors, a memorial speech, biographical essays, and miscellaneous notes.

Steinitz's professional activities during her career as a librarian and curator of the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana are documented through published articles and books, informal reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, sketches, and photographs.

Files pertaining to exhibitions of Steinitz's artwork and collection are documented through three exhibition catalogs, correspondence, inventories, photographs, and printed ephemera. Materials related to the Schwitters-Steinitz Collection, which was compiled by Steinitz and is available at the National Gallery of Art Library in Washington, D.C., include a finding aid and photocopies documenting the exhibition Collaborative Works by Kate Steinitz and Kurt Schwitters from the Schwitters-Steinitz Collection (1994).

Personal business records include an appraisal of Steinitz's art and book collection. Documents pertaining to Steinitz's publishing activities include sales agreements and legal services rendered for the book Kurt Schwitters: A Portrait from Life (1968) written by Steinitz and contracts with Whitman Publishing Company for a children's book by Tom Seidmann-Freud.

Printed material consists of published illustrations and stationary by Steinitz; clippings about Steinitz, Kurt Schwitters, and others; reproductions of artwork; and miscellaneous invitations and announcements. Also found are three children's books written and illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud and a book of poems with an illustrated book jacket by Joachin Ringelnatz.

Steinitz's personal and professional trips to Europe are documented through six travel scrapbooks which include sketches, photographs, notes, and printed ephemera such as postcards, receipts, and maps.

Artwork by Steinitz consists of travel sketches and a mock-up sketch for the book Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci: Their History, With a Description of the Manuscript Editions in Facsimile (1948). Artwork by others includes miscellaneous sketches, prints, and paintings. Of note are greeting cards with prints by Werner Graeff and a collage by Otto Nebel.

Photographs and negatives consist of portraits and snapshots of Steinitz as well as family, friends, and artists. Photographs by Steinitz include a self-portrait and images of artists, artwork, and Bauhaus architecture. Photographs of Steinitz's apartments in Los Angeles include images of a Man Ray table that was given to Jake Zeitlin. Artists represented include Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, George Grosz, and others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 10 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1915-1976 (Box 1; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1922-1998 (Boxes 1-2; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings, 1921-2002 (Box 2; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 4: Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana, 1948-1989 (Boxes 2-3; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 5: Exhibition Files, 1939-2001 (Box 3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1938-1993 (Box 3; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1913-2002 (Boxes 3-5; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 8: Travel Scrapbooks, 1966-1974 (Box 4; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 9: Artwork, circa 1928-1974 ( Boxes 4-5; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 10: Photographic Material, circa 1910-1979 (Boxes 4-5; 0.3 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Kate Steinitz (1889-1975) was an artist, collector, librarian, and scholar who worked in Berlin and Hanover, Germany and Los Angeles, California. Steinitz was born in Beuthen, Silesia, Germany, (now Poland) to Arnold and Magdelena Traumann; the family relocated to Berlin in 1899. From 1908 to 1911, Steinitz studied drawing and painting under Käthe Kollwitz and Lovis Corinth and attended lectures by art historian, Heinrich Wölfflin. While visiting Paris with her mother in 1912, Steinitz continued her studies at the Sorbonne and Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

Steinitz married physician, Ernst Steinitz in 1913. The couple had three daughters including Ilse, Lotti, and Beate. In 1917, the family moved to Hanover, Germany. Over the next 17 years, the Steinitz household served as a salon for visiting artists including Naum Gabo, Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Visitors' notes and drawings from this era are documented in Steinitz's guestbook, Zu Gast bei Kate Steinitz, published by Galerie Gmurzynska in 1977.

Steinitz was most active as a fine artist while living in Hanover. Her paintings under glass were first exhibited in 1921 at Herbert von Garvens' gallery. Steinitz had her first solo exhibition in 1922 at the Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin. In 1926, her work was included in the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Steinitz also collected art and her collection included artworks by El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Auguste Rodin, Otto Nebel, Franz Marc, and others. In 1925, she collaborated with German artist Kurt Schwitters and Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg on Die Scheuche Märchen, a typographic children's book published by Aposs and Merz Verlag. Steinitz and Schwitters also collaborated on Der Zusammenstoss, an opera libretto. Steinitz compiled an archival collection documenting Schwitters' life and career which was later acquired by the National Gallery of Art Library in Washington, D.C. in 1976.

As a journalist, Steinitz wrote about art and lifestyle topics for newspapers and magazines in Hanover and Berlin. Growing Nazi influences caused the family to leave Germany for New York City in 1936. As Chairman of the Art Committee of Friendship House, a cultural organization for refugees, Steinitz organized the New Americans (1939-1940) exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by European refugees at the World's Fair in New York.

After finalizing her U.S. citizenship in 1944, Steinitz relocated to Los Angeles where she resided for the remainder of her life. From 1945 to 1961, she served as a librarian for Elmer Belt's Leonardo da Vinci library. When Belt donated the library to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1961, Steinitz was named honorary curator of the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana. In 1969, Steinitz's literary contributions on Leonardo da Vinci earned her an invitation to deliver the lecture for the IX Lettura Vinciana in Venice, Italy.

The biographical information included here draws upon the following sources: Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol. 45 (1970) and Kate Steinitz: Art into Life into Art, exhibition catalog, Severin Wunderman Museum (1994).

Related Materials:

Kate Steinitz compiled a collection of archival materials about German artist and writer Kurt Schwitters and donated the materials to the National Gallery of Art Library located in Washington, D.C.

Kate Traumann Steinitz papers are also located at UCLA Library Special Collections.

Provenance:

The Kate Steinitz papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in 1999 by Ilse Berg, daughter of Kate Steinitz.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Rights:

The Kate Steinitz papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Occupation:

Librarians -- Germany  Search this

Art historians -- Germany  Search this

Librarians -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Art historians -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Illustrators -- Germany  Search this

Illustrators -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Curators -- Germany  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Curators -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany  Search this

Dadaism  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Manuscripts

Journals (accounts)

Collages

Paintings

Greeting cards

Visitors' books

Travel diaries

Citation:

Kate Steinitz papers, circa 1910-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.steikate

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-steikate

Creator:

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this

Names:

Betty Parsons Gallery  Search this

Chase Manhattan Bank -- Art collections  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this

Mark Rothko Foundation  Search this

Municipal Art Exhibition (1st : 1934 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

PepsiCo, Inc.  Search this

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- Art collections  Search this

Rockefeller University  Search this

Smith College -- Students  Search this

Smith College. Museum of Art  Search this

World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) -- Art collections  Search this

Asher, Elise, 1914-  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Bontecou, Lee, 1931-  Search this

Byars, James Lee  Search this

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Canady, John  Search this

Charlton, Maryette  Search this

Christo, 1935-  Search this

Chryssa, 1933-  Search this

Coggeshall, Calvert, 1907-1990  Search this

Copley, Alfred L.  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989  Search this

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948  Search this

Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-  Search this

Hartigan, Grace  Search this

Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849  Search this

Horwitt, Will  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Karpel, Bernard, 1911-1986  Search this

Levy, Julien  Search this

Mather, Eleanore Price, 1910-  Search this

Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia , 1887-1986  Search this

Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971  Search this

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967  Search this

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 -- Art collections  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Sage, Kay  Search this

Scharf, William, 1927-  Search this

Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965  Search this

Sterne, Hedda, 1910-2011  Search this

Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980  Search this

Extent:

34.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sketches

Christmas cards

Drawings

Date:

1853-2013

bulk 1920-1996

Summary:

The papers of contemporary and folk art curator, historian, and consultant Dorothy C. Miller measure 34.6 linear feet and date from 1853-2013, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1996. The papers primarily concern Miller's private art consulting work outside of her curatorial work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Found are scattered biographical materials, extensive correspondence and subject files, and project files for her art consulting work for the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller University, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the World Trade Center, and other miscellaneous corporate and private clients. Miller's work as a trustee and committee member of various public and private boards and commissions is also represented here. Additionally, the papers contain Miller's research files on Edward Hicks and folk art, and a small number of files of her husband Holger Cahill about his work as Director of the Federal Art Project. There is a scattered documentation of Miller's early curatorial work with Holger Cahill on the First Municipal Art Exhibition (1934) held at the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Also found is Dorothy Miller's collection of artists' Christmas cards and photographs of Miller and others. An addition to the papers includes biographical material; family papers; correspondence; professional files; art collection and client files; printed material; and photographic material. While a small number professional files are included, the majority of the addition relates to her personal life, including correspondence with her husband Holger Cahill, and files pertaining to her personal art collection.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of contemporary and folk art curator, historian, and consultant Dorothy C. Miller measure 34.6 linear feet and date from 1853-2013, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1996. The papers primarily concern Miller's art consulting work outside of her curatorial work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York city. Found are scattered biographical materials, extensive correspondence and subject files, and project files for her art consulting work for the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller University, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and other miscellaneous corporate and private clients. Her work as a trustee and committee member of various public and private boards and commissions is also represented here. Additionally, the papers contain Miller's research files on Edward Hicks and folk art, and a small number of files related to Miller's husband Holger Cahill and his work as Director of the Federal Art Project. There is important documentation of Miller's early curatorial work with Holger Cahill on the First Municipal Art Exhibition (1934) held at the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Artwork includes scattered sketches and drawings enclosed with correspondence and original Christmas cards sent to Miller by various artists. Photographs of Miller date from 1926 - circa 1950.

Scattered biographical material mostly concerns Miller's education at Smith College and awards and honorary degrees that she received. Extensive correspondence and subject files document her professional and personal relationships with family, friends, colleagues, museums, art dealers and artists, as well as her research interests. Individual files may contain a mix of correspondence with, as well as about, the person or subject, compiled research documents, printed materials, and scattered photographs. Files are found for Lewin Alcopley, Alfred Barr, Betty Parsons Gallery, Cahill family members, Lee Bontecou, James Byars, Holger Cahill, Alexander Calder, Christo, Chryssa, Calvert Coggeshall, John Canaday, Maryette Charlton, Stuart Davis, Jay DeFeo, Lorser Feitelson, Arshile Gorky, Peggy Guggenheim, Grace Hartigan, Will Horwitt, Jasper Johns, Julien Levy, Pierre Matisse, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Isamu Nauchi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Kay Sage, Charles Sheeler, Hedda Sterne, travel, Clyfford Still, William Scharf, among many others.

Detailed records of Miller's art consulting and advisory work for the Rockefeller family include correspondence with Nelson A. Rockefeller and David Rockefeller about building their personal collections of contemporary and folk art, meeting notes and minutes, research notes and writings, and printed materials. The largest group of records concerns the writing and publication of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Modern Art. Miller's curatorial work for David Rockefeller and the Rockefeller University's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall art collection is documented in Series 4 through curatorial files, correspondence, printed materials, photographs and slides, artists files, and design records.

Series 5 contains files relating to Miller's work as the first art consutant to the Chase Manhattan Bank and the building of the corporation's extensive collection of contemporary art. There is a draft of Miller's text for the bank's published catalog, Art At Work: Chase Manhattan Bank Collection. A smaller set of records is found in Series 6 documenting Miller's work on the Art Committee of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, including files about selecting artwork for the World Trade Center during the early 1970s. Files concerning Miller's advisory work with additional public and private clients, boards, and commissions are arranged in Series 7 and 8 and concern the Amstar Corporation, Fidelity International Bank, First National Bank of Tampa, First National City Bank, Inmont Corporation, Pepsico, United Mutual Savings Bank, the Empire State Plaza Art Commission, the Hancock Shaker Village, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Mark Rothko Foundation, the Museum of American Folk Art, and the Smith College Museum of Art.

Miller's papers include a small group of files relating to the WPA Federal Art Project (FAP)created by her husband Holger Cahill when he was director of the FAP, Holger Cahill. A small series is devoted to Miller's work with Eleanore Price Mather researching and writing Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdom and Other Paintings. A series of general research files contain miscellaneous research notes and photographs related to Miller's interests in early American art and folk art. Series 12 contains important documentation of Miller's early curatorial work with Holger Cahill on the First Municipal Art Exhibition (1934) held at the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center.

Works of art are primarily in the form of Christmas cards sent to Miller by various artists including Elise Asher, Lyonel Feininger, Bernard Karpel, and Irene Rice Pereira. A small group of photographs includes photographs of Miller from 1926-circa 1950 and a few photographs of others.

The addition includes biographical material; family papers; correspondence; professional files; art collection and client files; printed material; and photographic material. While a small number of professional files are found here, the majority of material relates to Miller's personal life, including correspondence with her husband Holger Cahill, and files pertaining to her personal art collection. Scattered correspondence, inventories, research, and notes created by curator and donor of the papers, Wendy Jeffers, are found throughout the collection. These materials date from the 1980s-2000s.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 15 series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1917-1986 (Box 1; 0.3 linear ft.)

Series 2: Correspondence and Subject Files, circa 1912-1992 (Boxes 1-8, OV 27; 7.2 linear ft.)

Series 3: Rockefeller Family Art Collections, circa 1949-1985 (Boxes 8-12, 25; 3.9 linear ft.)

Series 4: Rockefeller University Collection, 1923-1984 (Boxes 12-13, OV 27; 1.0 linear ft.)

Series 5: Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, 1959-circa 1985 (Boxes 13-14, 26; 1.4 linear ft.)

Series 6: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Art Committee, circa 1965-1987 (Boxes 14-15, OV 27; 0.8 linear ft.)

Series 7: Other Corporate and Private Clients, 1968-1984 (Boxes 15-16; 1.3 linear ft.)

Series 8: Other Boards, Committees and Commissions, 1925, 1949-1985 (Boxes 16-20; 3.6 linear ft.)

Series 9: Works Project Administration Federal Art Project Files, 1935-1979 (Box 20, OV 27; 0.5 linear ft.)

Series 10: Edward Hicks Catalog, 1934-1984 (Boxes 20-22; 1.5 linear ft.)

Series 11: Research Files, 1930s-1980 (Boxes 22-23; 0.8 linear ft.)

Series 12: Exhibition Files, 1932-1986 (Box 23; 0.6 linear ft.)

Series 13: Works of Art, circa 1924-circa 1982 (Boxes 23-25; 1.5 linear ft.)

Series 14: Photographs, 1926-circa 1970s (Boxes 24-25; 0.3 linear ft.)

Series 15: Addition to the Dorothy C. Miller Papers, 1853-2003, bulk 1920-1996 (Boxes 28-38, OVs 39-41; 9.9 linear ft.)

Biographical Note:

Dorothy Canning Miller (1904-2003) worked in New York City as a highly influential curator of contemporary and folk art at the Museum of Modern Art and as the first curator of the museum. Later, she was the primary art consultant for Nelson A. Rockefeller, the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller University, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Port Authority of and New Jersey. Dorothy Miller was also married to Holger Cahill, director of the WPA Federal Art Project.

Dorothy C. Miller was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts in 1904 and received her Bachelor of Arts from Smith College in 1925. She was first introduced to modern art through classes at the Newark Museum taught by John Cotton Dana and Holger Cahill. Miller joined the curatorial staff of the Newark Museum in 1926. The museum was one of the first to organize exhibitions of American folk art, American Primitives (1930-1931) and American Folk Sculpture (1931-1932). Miller worked with Cahill and others on the exhibition and developed a life-long interest in folk art.

After four years at the Newark Museum, Miller moved to New York city, hoping to get involved with the newly opened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and, likely, to be with Holger Cahill, with whom she lived with on 8th Street prior to their marriage in 1938. Between 1930 and 1932 she took odd jobs and worked with Mrs. Henry Lang cataloging, researching and installing Lang's collection of Native American art Lang donated to the Montclair Art Museum. At the same time, Holger Cahill was serving as Acting Director of the Museum of Modern Art during an absence of Director Alfred H. Barr. In 1932, Cahill asked Miller to assist him with curating the American Painting and Sculpture, 1862-1932 exhibition at MoMA, and together they also curated the First Municipal Art Exhibition, 1934 at the Rockefeller Center.

In 1934, Barr hired Miller as his assistant and one year later appointed her as MoMA's first curator. Miller spent the next 35 years organizing many of this country's most important exhibitions of contemporary art and building personal relationships with new artists and photographers, as well as the collections of MoMA. Miller retired from MOMA in 1969 and focused more on her art consulting work begun in the late 1950s.

Dorothy Miller's most notable client was Nelson A. Rockefeller. She assisted and advised Rockefeller as he acquired a vast personal collection of modern art - some of which was later donated to MoMA. Just prior to her retirement, Miller organized a large exhibition of Rockefeller's collection. The exhibition catalog written by Miller was the basis for the book she worked on with Rockefeller up until and following his death in 1979, ultimately published as The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Modern Art. In the preface, Rockefeller credited Miller with being one of the four people to whom he was indebted "for the understanding and endless joy I have found in the collecting of modern art in all forms."

Miller also served as the primary art consultant for projects to furnish federal spaces, including Henry Kissinger's State Department office suite, and the official Vice-Presidential residence at the Admiral's House in Washington D.C.

In 1959 Miller was invited to join the art collection committee of the Chase Manhattan Bank and served on the committee until the mid-1980s, contributing her expertise to the development of one of this country's oldest and largest corporate collections of modern and contemporary art.

Miller was also an advisor to other members of the Rockefeller family, including David Rockefeller, and assisted with developing the art collections of Rockefeller Institute/University. From 1960 through the late 1980s Miller was a member of the art committee for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANJY) and was responsible for selecting much of the artwork for the World Trade Center in the 1970s. She served on numerous boards and commissions, including the Hancock Shaker Village, the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Empire State Plaza in Albany, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Museum of American Folk Art. She also became a member of the Mark Rothko Foundation Board of Directors after the litigation following Rothko's death between Rothko's executors and his daughter.

In the mid-1970s Miller assisted the Whitney Museum of American with planning an exhibition and supporting catalog of the work of folk artist Edward Hicks. Although the exhibition and catalog were only partially realized in 1980, Miller and Eleanore Price Mather compiled and published a book on Hicks, Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings, published in 1983.

In 1982-1983 Miller received the Art Dealers Association Special Award, an honorary degree from Williams College, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture governor's award. In 1984 she was named honorary trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1985 the Smith College Museum of Art honored her important contributions to museum connoisseurship with the exhibition Dorothy C. Miller: With An Eye to American Art.

Dorothy Miller died in 2003 at the age of 99 at her home in Greenwich, New York.

Related Material:

The Archives of American Art holds two oral history interviews with Dorothy C. Miller. The first was conducted by Paul Cummings between May 26, 1970 and September 28, 1971, and details Miller's life from childhood up to, and including, her years at the Museum of Modern Art. The second was conducted by Avis Berman on May 14, 1981 and covers Miller's relationships with Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. Also found among the holdings of the Archives are the papers of Holger Cahill, Dorothy Miller's husband and colleague.

The Museum of Modern Art Achives holds Dorothy Miller's papers related to her curatorial work at the museum.

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Dorothy C. Miller via Wendy Jeffers between 1986 and 1997, and Reid White, Executor of Miller's estate, in 2004. Two subsequent additions were donated by Wendy Jeffers in 2014 and 2015.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

The Dorothy C. Miller papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions  Search this

Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Corporations -- Private collections  Search this

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Folk art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketches

Christmas cards

Drawings

Citation:

Dorothy C. Miller papers, 1853-2013, bulk 1920-1996. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.milldoro

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-milldoro

Creator:

Miller, William P., 1948-  Search this

Names:

Alex Hillman Family Foundation  Search this

Hillman Family Collection  Search this

Hillman, Alex L., 1900-1968  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1952-1988

Scope and Contents:

Files from Miller's position as curatorial consultant to the Alex Hillman Family Foundation Art Collection. Included are: biographical information about Alex Hillman and family; lists, catalog drafts, appraisals, and deaccession lists of and reports about the Hillman Art Collection; files on loans and traveling exhibitions of the Hillman Art Collection, containing catalogs, brochures, announcements, and installation photographs for exhibitions at the American Federation of the Arts, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum; draft for a catalog of the collection written by Miller; a manuscript for a book about the Hillman family and the collection (author unknown); and biographical information about Miller.

Biographical / Historical:

Curatorial consultant to the Alex Hillman Family Foundation Art Collection; New York, N.Y. Died ca. 1990. Also held various positions in Philadelphia and New York museums and art centers, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Jamaica Arts Center.

Provenance:

Donated 1991 by Paul Himmelstein, executor of the William P. Miller's estate. Miller's papers were collected along with the papers of Gary Reynolds; Miller and Reynolds were roommates and their estates were both settled by Himmelstein. Reynolds' papers are housed and cataloged separately.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Art historians  Search this

Museum curators  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.millwilp

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-millwilp

Author:

Li, Youchen 1950-  Search this

Subject:

Li, Youchen 1950- Art collections  Search this

Li, Youchen 1950- Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

5, 237 pages color illustrations 30 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Place:

China

Beijing

Date:

2007

Topic:

Porcelain, Chinese  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1019760

Author:

Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus  Search this

Former owner:

Syz, Hans C. DSI  Search this

Subject:

Firma M. Salomon Art collections  Search this

Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus  Search this

Physical description:

70, [2] pages, 50 leaves of plates illustrations 32 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Auction catalogs

Place:

Germany

Berlin

Date:

1912

Topic:

Art--Private collections  Search this

Auction catalogs  Search this

Bronzes  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Meissen porcelain  Search this

Painting  Search this

Porcelain  Search this

Art museums  Search this

Call number:

NK550.G32 .R84 1912

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1015519

Author:

Laufer, Berthold 1874-1934,  Search this

Subject:

Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

pages [260]-269 26 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

United States

Date:

1913

Topic:

Art, Chinese--Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Call number:

708.1.F84 L11

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1015722

Creator:

West Texas Museum Association  Search this

Subject:

Biggers, John Thomas  Search this

Texas Watercolor Association  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Exhibitions  Search this

Art -- Private collections -- Texas  Search this

Art, African -- Texas  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5944

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208785

AAA_collcode_westtexa

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208785

Creator:

Scott, Sue  Search this

Subject:

Westheimer, Ellen  Search this

Westheimer, Jerome  Search this

Oklahoma Art Center  Search this

Ellen and Jerome Westheimer collection  Search this

Oklahoma Art Center  Search this

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions  Search this

Art -- Private collections -- Oklahoma  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10985

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214856

AAA_collcode_scotsue

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214856

Creator:

Simon, Caroline K. (Caroline Klein)  Search this

Thannhauser, Justin K., 1892-1976  Search this

Subject:

Thannhauser, Hilde  Search this

Justin K. Thannhauser collection  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10987

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214858

AAA_collcode_simocaro

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214858

Creator:

Pierpont Morgan Library  Search this

Subject:

Chase, William Merritt  Search this

Nast, Thomas  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8842

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211027

AAA_collcode_piermorg

Theme:

The Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211027

Creator:

Kurtz, Charles M. (Charles McMeen), 1855-1909  Search this

Subject:

Abbey, Edwin Austin  Search this

Avery, Samuel Putnam  Search this

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di  Search this

Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict)  Search this

Hallowell, Sara  Search this

Hambidge, Jay  Search this

Hasbrouck, Du Bois Fenelon  Search this

Irwin, Benoni  Search this

Ives, Halsey Cooley  Search this

Kurtz, Davis Brook Kurtz  Search this

Kurtz, Julia Stephenson  Search this

Wickenden, Robert J.  Search this

Thum, Patty P.  Search this

Wanamaker, John  Search this

Rhodes, Charles Ward  Search this

Richardson, Mary Curtis  Search this

Sedelmeyer, Charles  Search this

Pluschow, Guglielmo  Search this

Reid, Alexander  Search this

Starkweather family  Search this

Southern Exposition  Search this

Saint Louis Exposition and Music Hall Association  Search this

Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, N.Y.)  Search this

American Art Association  Search this

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy  Search this

World's Columbian Exposition  Search this

Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)  Search this

Louisiana Purchase Exposition  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  Search this

Type:

Menus

Photographs

Lithographs

Etchings

Address books

Engravings

Visiting cards

Diaries

Photogravures

Tempera paintings

Oil paintings

Sketches

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Glasgow school of painting  Search this

Exhibitions -- United States  Search this

Art, Scottish  Search this

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Art criticism  Search this

Art museums -- Buffalo (N.Y.)  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Museum directors -- New York (State) -- Buffalo  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9530

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211729

AAA_collcode_kurtchar

Theme:

Diaries

The Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211729

Creator:

Miller, William P., 1948-ca. 1990  Search this

Subject:

Hillman, Alex L.  Search this

Alex Hillman Family Foundation  Search this

Hillman Family Collection  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10799

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214517

AAA_collcode_millwilp

Theme:

The Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214517

Creator:

Nathaniel Saltonstall Arts Fund  Search this

Subject:

Saltonstall, Nathaniel  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Art patronage  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10839

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214585

AAA_collcode_nathsalt

Theme:

The Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214585