| Richard McDermott Miller | ||
| Birth Date: 1922 |
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| Death Date: December 25, 2005 Artist Gallery |
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| Richard McDermott Miller was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the 1940s and 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.
Miller worked with live models and created work in wax and clay. Using the lost wax method he casted these works in bronze. The figures could measure anywhere from a few inches to more than eight feet tall. His sculpture was naturalist which ran counter to the prevailing tastes of the abstracts that were at their height of popularity.
Miller wrote “Figure Sculpture in Wax and Plaster” along with his wife in 1987. He taught sculpture at Queens College from 1967 to 1992. He was president of the National Academy of Design in New York from 1989 to 1992
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