Dorothy Miller, curator.
Dorothy Miller (1904–2003) served as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art from 1942 to 1963 and produced a series of key exhibitions, including “Twelve Americans”, “Fourteen Americans” and “Fifteen Americans”, that brought wide attention to a new gen- eration of artists. The international touring exhibition “New American Painting” (1958–9) presented canvases by Sam Francis, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. This lecture will focus on how her curatorial choices and the Museum of Modern Art’s promotion of these exhibitions relate to the rebuilding of culture in the US and abroad in the postwar period.
This event was held in conjuction with the James Gallery exhibition “The Making of Americans.” For more information, click here.