Robert Miller (April 17, 1939 – June 22, 2011) was an American art dealer.
Robert Miller | |
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Born | |
Died | June 22, 2011 | (aged 72)
Alma mater | Rutgers University |
Occupation | 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 NYC 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]