Miller Gore Brittain
1912-1968
Miller Gore Brittain was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, on 12 November 1912. As an adolescent, he enrolled as an arts student at the Saint John Vocational School. Later, in 1930, he left to study at the Arts Students League of New York where he studied until 1932. In the early 1940s Brittain joined the RCAF and was posted to No. 78 Squadron in Breighton, Yorkshire, as a bomb-aimer. However, he acted principally as a war artist and was so designated along with thirty-two others in 1945. In January 1949, he had his first important exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John. In 1968, at the age of fifty-six, Brittain was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal for his contribution to Canadian art and died that same year. Miller Brittain was an icon of the Saint John arts community, an inspiration to artists, poets and writers.
Belyea, Matt J. "Miller Gore Brittain." New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Winter 2008. Accessed 27 May 2023.
Predominant New Brunswick Residences:
Saint John
Archival Material
Clippings and exhibit catalogues for Miller Brittain can be found in University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections MG H 173 and New Brunswick Museum archives in the New Brunswick Museum Art Department Records in addition to the material listed below.
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Miller Gore Brittain (1912-1968) : scrapbook (193
⌄LocationProvincial Archives of New BrunswickRetrieval NumberMC1861Date Range of Material1982-1985Extent
1 scrapbook
Scope and Content NoteThis scrapbook pertaining to the art of Miller Gore Brittain was compiled by Celia Toomik sometime between 1982 and 1985.
Miller Brittain
Girap, Sneha, editor. "Miller Brittain." Alchetron, 27 August 2022. . Accessed 27 May 2023.
See the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia entry.