Richard McDermott Miller, Sculptor -- Rest in Peace

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Subject: Richard McDermott Miller, Sculptor

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died Christmas Day, 2004

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Date Posted: January 09, 2005 12:54:34 EDT

Richard McDermott Miller, a New York sculptor whose lifelike nudes have been exhibited internationally and are in private and museum collections around the country, died on Dec. 25 in Manhattan. He was 82 and lived in Greenwich Village.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Gloria Bley Miller.

Mr. Miller, born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the 1940's, and he won a number of prizes for sculptures he modeled in river clay and cast into lead. He also managed a family manufacturing business until he was 40, when he sold his stake in it and headed for New York.

His art ran counter to prevailing tastes for the abstract. He worked with live models in wax and clay and had them cast in bronze. The resulting figures, still or shown in motion, could measure from a few inches to more than eight feet tall. His portrait sculpture, too, was naturalistic.

With his wife, he wrote "Figure Sculpture in Wax and Plaster" (1987) and other books on his art. He taught sculpture at Queens College, City University of New York, from 1967 to 1992. He was president of the National Academy of Design from 1989 to 1992 and of the National Sculpture Society from 1997 to 2000.

In addition to his wife of 43 years, Mr. Miller is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage, Sue Hartz of Dover, Ohio; two granddaughters; and two great-grandsons.

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