NEW YORK.- New York sculptor Richard McDermott Miller, 82, died in Manhattan. He was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He had more than twelve solo exhibitions in New York, and in other cities. Among the museums that have works by Richard McDermott Miller are the Hirshhorn Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ohio's Canton Art Institute, the Butler Institute of Amercan Art as well as in South Carolina's Brookgreen Gardens and North Carolina's Weatherspoon Art Gallery.

Richard McDermott Miller has received two gold medals from the National Academy of Design, the art award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hakone Open-Air Museum Award along with one from Classical America, particularly honoring him for his "single-minded dedication" to the human figure.