Robert Miller (art dealer)

Robert Miller
Born(1939-04-17)April 17, 1939
Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJune 22, 2011(2011-06-22) (aged 72)
El Portal, Florida, U.S.
Alma materRutgers University
OccupationArt dealer

Robert Miller (April 17, 1939 – June 22, 2011) was an American art dealer.

Miller was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1939. After an MFA from Rutgers University in 1963, he began his career in New York City as an artist; but by 1966 gave that up to become an art dealer.[1] He worked for twelve years as an assistant to the art dealer André Emmerich.[2] In 1977 he opened his own gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City with his wife, Betsy Wittenborn Miller;[3] it later moved to the Fuller Building on East 57th Street, and then to 26th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan.[4]He showed work by the artists Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Alice Neel, and by photographers such as Jan Groover, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, and Bruce Weber.[5]

He retired in 2002, and died on June 22, 2011, aged 72, at his home in El Portal, Florida, from an infection.[4] Patti Smith reflecting on her friend Robert Mapplethorpe thought Miller was a mentor to him. [6]

  1. ^ Robert Miller, Prominent New York Gallerist, 1939-2011, Art in America
  2. ^ Leading Art Dealer Robert Miller, Founder of Robert Miller Gallery, Dies at 72, Art Daily
  3. ^ Freeman, Nate (2016-07-27). "Robert Miller Gallery Closes Chelsea Space, and Betsy Wittenborn Miller's Upper East Side Maisonette Is on the Market". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  4. ^ a b William Grimes (June 26, 2011). Robert Miller, Manhattan Art Dealer, Dies at 72. The New York Times. Accessed August 2018.
  5. ^ Leading Art Dealer Robert Miller, Founder of Robert Miller Gallery, Dies at 72, Art Daily
  6. ^ Robert Miller, Maverick Art Dealer and Mapplethorpe Mentor, Dead at 72 L magazine