Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection Committee
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
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content: Dorothy C. Miller papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 13-14, 26)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-circa 1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.milldoro, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series documents Miller's work as the first art consultant to the Chase Manhattan Bank and founding member of the bank's art collection committee in 1959. Files here trace the development of the Chase collection from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s.

Records include a series of files labeled "Catalogs of Artwork" which provide detailed lists of all artwork; committee files containing correspondence and memoranda between members of the art committee including Miller, Alfred Barr, Robert Hale, Perry Rathbone, David Rockefeller (then the bank's president) and James Johnson Sweeney; committee meeting minutes, agendas, and reports; catalogs of the bank's acquisitions and collection; and news clippings. There is also correspondence with the Chase curator Mary Lanier and art institutions and galleries.

A draft of Miller's text for the bank's published catalog of essays, Art At Work: Chase Manhattan Bank Collection is filed in this series, as well as an interview transcript with Miller conducted by Peter Morin of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, about the exhibition, Chase Manhattan: the First 10 Years of Collecting, 1959-1969.