Background
Lillian Beresnack Miller was born on February 15, 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She was the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants Samuel Max Beresnack and Ida Frances Curland.
1975
Lillian B. Miller with Dr. Michael D. Schaffer, Barbara Bares and Rose Emerick
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Radcliffe College
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Columbia University
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Lillian Beresnack Miller was born on February 15, 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She was the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants Samuel Max Beresnack and Ida Frances Curland.
Miller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1943. She was the first member of her family to earn a college degree. She then pursued her studies at Columbia University.
In 1946 Miller began teaching literature at Bard College. In 1961, when her husband, Nathan Miller, secured a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, she found work there as well, first as an instructor and then as an associate professor of history. In 1971 she was asked to join the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery as a historian. She became the Institution’s historian of American culture in 1974 and worked to create various exhibits. While with the Smithsonian, she issued her first work on Peale and his family of painters. Her efforts to uncover the works of the family brought renewed interest to the artists.
Among the volumes Miller wrote or edited on the Peale family were The Collected Papers of Charles Willson Peal and His Family, Charles Willson Peale and His World (with Edgar P. Richardson and Brooke Hindle), The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family (edited with Sidney Hart and David C. Ward), New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration, In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1770-1860, and The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1778-1860. She also developed exhibitions on the Peales that toured the country as well as exhibits at facilities such as the Amon Carter Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In addition to her work at the Smithsonian, Miller also lectured widely at schools such as George Washington University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland. She also served as a panel member and evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition, she wrote books such as The Dye Is Now Cast: The Road to American Independence and In the Minds and Hearts of the People: Prologue to the American Revolution, 1760-1774.
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Quotes from others about the person
“Until Dr. Miller came along ... and began turning out volume after annotated volume covering four generations of Peale family papers, Peale had been largely dismissed as little more than a comic footnote to American history.” - New York Times
Lillian was married to Nathan Miller. She is survived by a son Joel and two daughters - Hannah Lieberman and Rebecca Miller-Randall.