Robert Miller (art dealer)

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

Miller was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1939. In 1964 Miller 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 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]