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TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION
2006
Lifetime Achievement Recipient
HARVEY
S. SHIPLEY MILLER
Harvey S. Shipley Miller has an extensive career
as a foundation trustee and philanthropist. After receiving a
B.A. degree at Swarthmore College, he went on to receive a J.D.
from Harvard Law School in 1973. In addition, he did graduate
coursework in art history at Harvard University.
Recent awards include: “Diploma of Merit” from the
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, June 2002 (1st
non-Russian to receive this award), Saint Petersburg and the City
of Philadelphia Award in recognition of Distinguished Civic Service
(1997).
Among his publications are: Milton Avery: Drawings and Paintings,
1976 and New Spaces: Exploring the Aesthetic Dimensions of
Holography, 1979.
Based at The Judith Rothschild Foundation (Sole
Trustee), he is currently active with: The Museum of Modern
Art (Trustee, Trustees' Committees on Drawing and on
Prints and Illustrated Books); Philadelphia Museum of
Art (Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees Executive Committee,
Chair 125th Anniversary gifts campaign, 2001 Fund Cabinet, Prints,
Drawing & Photographs Advisory Committee); University
of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing (Board of Overseers);
The Arcadia Foundation (treasurer), Milton and Sally Avery
Arts Foundation (Secretary); National Gallery
of Art (Trustees' Council); The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (Visiting Committees for Departments of
Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art and of Photographs);
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Charter Member,
The Drawings Group); Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary
Art (Drawings Committee), Hammer Museum, LA (Board of
Overseers); The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL (Founding
Trustee); Georges Pompidou Art and Culture Foundation
(Board of Directors and Executive Committee), Paris; The
College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Fellow), The
Highlands Historical Society (Advisory Board); The
Pierpont Morgan Library (Fellow); Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts (Trustee Emeritus); Ursinus
College (Trustee); Museum of Contemporary Art
(Miami) (Horary Trustee); The Point Foundation
(Trustee); Whitney Museum of American Art (Committee
on Drawings); Collections Committee of the Harvard University
Art Museums (Member); Salzburg Festival Society
(Directory); Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee,
the Morgan Library & Museum (Member).
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