Mary Callery (1903-1977) and Peter Miller (1913-1996) were both well-known artists in the mid-1940s. Callery showed regularly at a number of prestigious galleries in New York in the 1940s and 1950s: Bucholz (1944-1955), Curt Valentin (1947-1955), M. Knoedler & Co. in Paris and New York (1945), and Miller had two well-received one-person shows at the Julien Levy Gallery (in 1944 and 1945), …
Mary Callery (1903-1977) and Peter Miller (1913-1996) were both well-known artists in the mid-1940s. Callery showed regularly at a number of prestigious galleries in New York in the 1940s and 1950s: Bucholz (1944-1955), Curt Valentin (1947-1955), M. Knoedler & Co. in Paris and New York (1945), and Miller had two well-received one-person shows at the Julien Levy Gallery (in 1944 and 1945), the premier showplace for Surrealism in America. Yet today, with the exception of specialized studies in the field of mid-century American modernism, both artists are absent from historical accounts of …
