Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art
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| Artist | Piet Mondrian |
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| Year | 1942–44 |
| Type | Oil and paper on canvas |
| Dimensions | 127 cm × 127 cm (50 in × 50 in) |
| Location | Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Formerly owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and Emily and Burton Tremaine / The Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art, Meriden, CT. |
The Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art (c. 1945-55) was formed in Meriden, Connecticut as part of the Miller Company. The collection was formed by then-CEO Burton Tremaine, Sr. and his wife/Miller Co. art director Emily Hall Tremaine in c. 1945. The collection itself is most noted for its Painting toward architecture exhibition, originating at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, and travelling to at least 24 additional venues in 1947–52 across the United States.
After the exhibition's opening at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT in December 1947, the exhibition travelled to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Milwaukee Art Institute (now museum), the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well as university gallery venues. The final exhibition of Painting toward architecture was at the Farnsworth Art Museum at Wellesley College near Boston in May-June 1952.
The exhibition featured and referred to leading Modernists in European and American art and architecture with a connection to then-Miller Company lighting designs. Artworks exhibited included works by many artists including those by Josef Albers, Leo Amino, Jean Arp / Hans Arp, Harry Bertoia, Ilya Bolotowsky, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Mary Callery, Stuart Davis, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Perle Fine, Juan Gris, James Guy, Jean Hélion, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Wassily Kandinsky, Kunisada, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, John Marin, Roberto Matta, Carlos Mérida, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ben Nicholson, Georgia O'Keeffe, I. Rice Pereira, Pablo Picasso, Jose de Rivera, Kurt Schwitters, Charles Sheeler, Rufino Tamayo, Mark Tobey, John Tunnard and Theo van Doesburg.
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