Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition is hardly ‘overdue’ | Letter

<p>The American war and art photographer has been well represented in shows over the past two decades, writes <strong>Richard Calvocoressi</strong></p><p>Without wishing to belittle the comprehensive exhibition of Lee Miller at Tate Britain, it is hardly “overdue” (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/30/lee-miller-review-tate-britain-london-war-hitler-surrealist-bathtub">Lee Miller review – a dazzling, daring career from war photographer to surrealist pioneer via Hitler’s bathtub, 30 September</a>).</p><p>Since the start of the millennium there have been no fewer than four exhibitions of Lee Miller’s photographs in major UK national museums: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/may/29/artsfeatures.arts1">2001</a>, almost as big as the current Tate show), National Portrait Gallery (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/feb/06/art1">2005</a>), Victoria and Albert Museum (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/23/usa.artnews">2007</a>) and Imperial War Museum (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/19/lee-miller-a-womans-war-exhibition-imperial-war-museum-second-world-war-dachau-hitler">2015</a>). In the same period there have been several Miller shows in regional venues, such as Modern Art Oxford (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/jul/25/art">2004</a>) and Hepworth Wakefield (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/22/lee-miller-and-viviane-sassen-review-photography-and-the-female-gaze">2018</a>).</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/03/tate-britains-lee-miller-exhibition-is-hardly-overdue">Continue reading...</a>