Miner, Dorothy (1904–1973)

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Miner, Dorothy (1904–1973)

American museum curator and art historian. Born Dorothy Eugenia Miner Nov 4, 1904, in New York, NY; died May 15, 1973, in Baltimore, MD; dau. of Roy Waldo Miner (Episcopalian minister, then marine biologist) and Anna Elizabeth (Carroll) Miner (previously Catholic nun); Barnard College, AB, 1926; attended Bedford College, University of London, late 1920s, and Columbia University, 1928–29.

Joined Bedford College, London, as 1st Barnard International Fellow (1926); worked for Pierpont Morgan Library in NYC, preparing exhibition of illuminated manuscripts (1933–34); among the 1st few professionally trained art historians to be employed by American museums, worked for Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, MD, as Keeper of Manuscripts and as curator of Islamic and Near Eastern Art (1934–73); co-authored, with Grace Frank, Proverbes et Rimes (1937), authored Early Christian and Byzantine Art (1947), edited Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene (1954), and published 1st children's coloring book based on medieval woodcuts, Dragons and Other Animals (1960); edited Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (1938–69) and numerous catalogs of Walters collections; received copy of festschrift, Gatherings in Honor of Dorothy Miner (1973).