NEW YORK.- Art curator Dorothy Miller, 99, died at her apartment in Greenwich Village. Dorothy Canning Miller was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts on February 6, 1904. She graduated in 1925 from Smith College. She started working that year at the Newark Museum as an apprentice and was later hired. There she worked with curator Holger Cahill on progressive American art. Then she was hired by Alfred H. Barr Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art. She organized an exhibition on W.P.A. art,  the “Americans 1942”,  "American Realists and Magic Realists" in 1943, "Fourteen Americans" in 1946, "Fifteen Americans" in 1952, "Twelve Americans" in 1956, and "Sixteen Americans" in 1959. Her last show “Americans show was in 1963. Her exhibition surely "The New American Painting” toured Europe in 1958 and 1959 and had a great influence.

Dorothy Miller retired from the Museum of Modern Art in 1969 and was then adviser of several corporate collections. She wrote the book "Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdom and Other Paintings” together with Eleanor Price Mather.

Frank Stella stated yesterday: "She was a straight shooter, very respectful of the art and the artists and the museum, something you don’t get that much of anymore. The `Americans’ shows set the tone for my time. You were either in or you were not. They were exhibitions of what was going on, pointing to the future, and they were definitive. Or if they weren’t definitive, they were certainly exciting."