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Dan Miller, Untitled (239_2016), 2016, acrylic and ink on paper, 52 × 142 in. (132.1 × 360.7 cm) , Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Robson Family Collection, Gift of Douglas O. Robson, 2022.3, © Creative Growth Art Center
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Untitled (239_2016)
- Artist
- Date
- 2016
- Location
- Dimensions
- 52 × 142 in. (132.1 × 360.7 cm)
- Copyright
- © Creative Growth Art Center
- Credit Line
- The Robson Family Collection, Gift of Douglas O. Robson
- Mediums Description
- acrylic and ink on paper
- Classifications
- Object Number
- 2022.3
Artwork Description
Miller’s imagery runs from the easily legible to the entirely abstract. His family has offered context for pieces with readable passages: the names of significant people, objects with a particular resonance, memories from his uncle’s hardware store—recollections tucked into visual nests for safekeeping. But overall, Miller’s paintings don’t need interpretation. They powerfully convey a creative practice rooted in the daily effort to chart a visual record of experience. Miller and his art reveal the humanity in valuing uniquely personal languages and the exchanges they enable.
(We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection, 2022)
Exhibitions
July 1, 2022–March 26, 2023
We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection traces the rise of self-taught artists in the twentieth century and examines how, despite wide-ranging societal, racial, and gender-based obstacles, their creativity and bold self-definition became major forces in American art. The exhibition features recent gifts to the museum from two generations of collectors, Margaret Z. Robson and Douglas O. Robson.