Untitled (239_2016)

Media - 2022.3 - SAAM-2022.3_1 - 144048
Copied 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

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (239_2016)
Artist
Date
2016
Location
Not on view
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
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/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

Media - 2016.38.43R-V - SAAM-2016.38.43R-V_2 - 126225
We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection
July 1, 2022–March 26, 2023
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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