[SOA] Cleveland Museum of Art opens Frederick A. Miller collection

[Leslie Cade]

Opening of the Frederick A. Miller Collection
Archives of a Cleveland Silversmith

August 31, 2015

Collection Information                                                                     Press Information
Peter Buettner                                                                                                                 Kelley Notaro
pbuettner at clevelandart.org<mailto:pbuettner at clevelandart.org>                                                                                      knotaro at clevelandart.org
(216) 707-2661                                                                                                   (216) 707-6898

CLEVELAND (August ##, 2015) - The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives announces the opening of the Frederick A. Miller Collection, a multimedia collection documenting the life and career of the noted American silversmith.  Housed in the museum archives located in the Ingalls Library, the collection is available to the public by appointment.

An Akron native, Miller moved to Cleveland after WWII where he taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art.  He was an artisan at, and for several years owned, Potter and Mellen, one of the city's prominent jewelry stores featuring pieces designed by many important Cleveland gold and silversmiths.  For forty years Miller created hand-wrought objects, many of which he displayed in the museum's annual May Show.  His pieces are now in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The strength of the archives collection resides in demonstrating Miller's creative process.  Miller specialized in the raising method, in which he hammered flat disks of silver to form expressive pieces of hollowware.   The collection contains sketches, models, drawings, photographs, and films documenting his process of fabricating award winning objects.

Part of the collection is now on display in the museum's Ingalls Library and features a bowl from the permanent collection.  The display focuses on the 1948 Silversmithing Workshop Conference directed by Baron Erik Fleming, then court silversmith to the King of Sweden, which was a pivotal point in Miller's career.  Miller began pioneering his distinctive free form style while at the workshop.

Information about the collection and a complete finding aid are available on the archives website at http://library.clevelandart.org/frederick-miller-collection.  Inquiries about the collection can also be sent to archives2 at clevelandart.org<mailto:archives2 at clevelandart.org>.

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About the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives

The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives offers comprehensive access to art information and serves the general public, students from every school and degree level, independent researchers, and all museum departments.  The library provides assistance to anyone seeking information on art, with publications covering all periods and geographic areas of art history and materials in many languages.  The museum archives contain records documenting the academic, cultural, and educational history of the institutions 100-year history.  The library and archives is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and requires a brief registration for access.

About the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes almost 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. The museum is a significant international forum for exhibitions, scholarship, performing arts and art education and recently completed an ambitious, multi-phase renovation and expansion project across its campus. One of the top comprehensive art museums in the nation and free of charge to all, the Cleveland Museum of Art is located in the dynamic University Circle neighborhood.


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Leslie Cade
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