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Occupation
  
American art dealer

Name
  
Robert Miller


Role
  
Art dealer

Education
  
Rutgers University

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Born
  
April 17, 1939
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Died
  
June 22, 2011, El Portal, Florida, United States

Robert Miller (April 17, 1939 – June 22, 2011) was an American art dealer in New York City. His art gallery, located first (in 1977) on 5th Avenue, later in the Fuller Building on East 57th Street, and finally on 26th Street in Chelsea (all in Manhattan) continues to be a leading gallery exhibiting the works of contemporary artists including Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois, Roberto Juarez, Alice Neel, Robert Graham and Yayoi Kusama, all of whom Miller represented at some point. In 2002 Miller retreated from the current business and left the gallery to his wife Betsy Wittenborn Miller.

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Miller was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His career as a gallerist began in the 1960s as an assistant at the André Emmerich Gallery at 41 East 57th Street. The Emmerich gallery exhibited many leading artists of the time; and Miller learned the business by working in the field with some of the most important artists of his time.


Death

Robert Miller died on June 22, 2011, aged 72, at his home in El Portal, Florida, from an infection.

Artists Represented

This is a selection of artists, both past and present, represented by Robert Miller Gallery.

  • Justin Allen
  • Diane Arbus
  • Robert Greene
  • Bill Henson
  • Paul Jenkins
  • Joseph La Piana
  • Lee Krasner
  • Herbert List
  • Willem Oorebeek
  • Glen Rubsamen
  • Patti Smith
  • David Hockney
  • Alex Katz
  • Yayoi Kusama
  • Clarence John Laughlin
  • George Platt Lynes
  • David Salle
  • Man Ray
  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Andy Warhol
  • Tom Wesselmann
  • Dustin Yellin
  • References

    Robert Miller (art dealer) Wikipedia