Artist: Milton Avery (1885 - 1965)
Nationality: American
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Milton Avery spent most of his career working in New York, executing his paintings in the innovative style of Matisse. He was the sole exponent of this style until the next generation of artists such as Rothko and Gottlieb emerged on the scene in the 1940’s. Although never converting to abstraction, his later work boarders on the non-representational realm.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Milton Avery - Sally Avery with Still Life 1926 oil on cotton Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Child Cutting (A Study of Maarch Avery) 1936 etching Arkansas Arts Center American
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Milton Avery Hen woodcut 1958
Museum of Fine Arts -
© 2001 Milton Avery Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Milton Clark Avery,
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© 2001 Milton Avery Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Milton Clark Avery,
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© 2002 Milton Avery Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Milton Clark Avery,
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, By the Sea drypoint 1948
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Milton Avery Self-Portrait drypoint 1937
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, Head of a Man drypoint 1935
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Untitled, Milton Avery (United States, New York, Altmar, 1893 - 1965) , 1954, Oil on canvas
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Artist: Milton Avery Title: Birds and Sea Date: 1955 Medium: woodcut in blue ink Dimensions:
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Milton Avery Gray Sea color transfer lithograph on zinc 1963
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Milton Avery March at a Table drypoint 1948
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, Riders in the Park drypoint 1934
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, Reclining Nude drypoint 1948
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, March at a Table drypoint 1948
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Lady Seated, Milton Avery (United States, New York, Altmar, 1893 - 1965) , 1944, Oil on canvas
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MIlton Avery - Haircut by the Sea 1943 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Milton Avery - The Blue Blouse 1958 Oil on canvas board Vero Beach Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Amusement Park c. 1929 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Mountain and Meadow 1960 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Milton Avery - Sea Grasses and Blue Sea 1958 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Milton Avery - Child and Mother 1946 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Blue Gown 1944 Oil on Canvas Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Studious Sketcher 1945 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Man Fishing c. 1938 oil on fiberboard Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - East Hartford Meadows 1922 Oil on upsom board Florence Griswold Museum American
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Diaries of Samuel P. Avery, 1871-1882 Author: Samuel Putnam Avery (American, 1822-1904)Bound manuscript; 5 vols.;
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Sarah Miriam Peale - Isaac Avery 1821 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Sarah Miriam Peale - Susan Avery 1821 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Milton Avery - Nude with Guitar 1947 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Spring Orchard 1959 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Nude with Red Drape 1956 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Samuel P. Avery (1822-1904), 1876 Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, 1841-1920)Oil on wood; 24
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Milton Avery - Black Goat, White Goat 1958 Ink, color pencil Arkansas Arts Center American
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S. P. Avery, Engraver on Wood, 1800s Author: Samuel Putnam Avery (American, 1822-1904)New York: [s.n.],
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Milton Avery - Untitled (Harbor Scene) c. 1921-1925 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Portrait of Louis M. Eilshemius 1942 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Untitled (Rock and Water View) c. 1921-1925 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Buster Keaton, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , mid-1960s, Dye-imbibition print
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Steve McQueen, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1960, Gelatin-silver print
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Kim Novak, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1956, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Yul Brynner, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1958, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Eve Arden, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1956, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Liberace, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1956, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Autographs and Sketches from Artist Friends to Samuel P. Avery, 1874-1880 Author: Samuel Putnam Avery
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James Dean Composite, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1955, Gelatin-silver print
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James Dean, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1955, printed 1991, Platinum print
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Marlon Brando, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1955, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Humphrey Bogart, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1952, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Ernest Borgnine, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1955, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Johnny Carson, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1953, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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George Jessel, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1953, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Elaine Stewart, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1953, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Lucille Ball, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1953, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Michael Landon, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1957, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Jack Benny, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1957, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Dean Martin, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1961, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Clark Gable, Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1957, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Sammy Davis, Jr., Sid Avery (United States, Ohio, Akron, 1918 - 2002) , 1960, printed later, Gelatin-silver print

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (31)
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Milwaukee Art Museum: Milton Avery: The Late Paintings
This will be the most comprehensive consideration to date of Avery’s late work; it will provide a new generation of viewers with the opportunity to see many of his largest canvases created between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. While this ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Welcome Home Milton!
Milton Avery brought together simple, spare forms and harmonious colors to build patterns of flat, interlocking shapes reminiscent of French artist Henri Matisse. He frequently ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: Flights of Reality: Charles Avery, Matthew Ritchie, Keith Tyson, Grace Weir, Keith Wilson
The unfinished, and improvised nature of the works could be described as thoughts in progress mapping out patterns of the possible, or the debris of ideas that remain from the collision between science and the everyday. In their creation of new...
Chung King Project: A Drawing Exhibition: In association with The Drawing Room
What they have in common though is a thread of seriality, of repetition. Sometimes the repetition is one of subject - the same figure or device is reconsidered from a different perspective or at a different time, sometimes the repetition is mor...
Tai Koo Place: Future Art Group: An Exhibition for Universal Peace and Friendship
Future Art Group is found in 1997, in Denmark by Frank Mothe. With Artlove and Peace, artists help each other to exchange ideas about art projects, and exhibitions. Therefore members from around the wor...
Atlanta Photography Group and Gallery: On the Edge, Juried by Alan Avery
Elllen comments about her work, "I am yearning for the unfamiliar rather than the known. "Photography can lead us astray; it can entice us into an uncanny realm. Using light, it allows us to see through the screen of reality to another reali...
Stedelijk Museum: Avery Preesman - Bedrock
Rocky ground enclosed, a work-title used by Preesman in 1998 in his studio, inspired his good friend Maarten van Hinte to write a poem called Bedrock: 'Not just me. Tens. Hundreds. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people washing asho...
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery: Summer Group Exhibition: Phil Parkes, David Madacsi, Joy Floyd and Anne Culver
From Phil Parkes artist statement:
"I do not believe that art needs to shock us or reflect back at us all the negativity and horrors in the world today. We are blasted with this by most forms of media way too regularly. I believe that art ...
Avery Research Center: Moja Festival 2009 Juried Exhibition Features Work by Hampton Olfus
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Artist: Hampton Olfus
Title: Cosmic Dance
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Acrylic Painting
Width: 36 inches
Height: 24 inches
Price: US$ 4,000

Frye Art Museum: Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg
The monotype process involves drawing or painting on a flat surface and then transferring the image by means of pressure onto a sheet of paper. Only one strong impression can be taken. Weisberg uses oil paint and printing ink, applying the med...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Summer Selections: American Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
The origins of the Metropolitan's collection of American works on paper can be traced to the 1880s—the decade after the Museum was founded. Now numbering more than 1,500 ...
Visual Art League: Funding for Visual Online Experiments
See an example at: http://www.fine-art.com/valweb/floatart/about_floatart.htm The Visual Arts League began 7 years ago. There have been many ...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: ART and LAND: Contemporary Australian Visions
The exhibition explores the idea that the representation of the land is culturally constructed. Rather than a window through to an unmediated landscape, the works explore the frame and the glass of the window as much as the view. They explore the ...
Everson Musuem of Art: Still Life Paintings from the Collection
Lie’s painting did not engender the same puzzlement or derision as did some of the works shown at the Armory by his more experimental colleagues (Duchamp’s Nude Descendi...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Dave Muller: Posters and Three Day Weekend

Although they take different forms, Mullers parallel art activities—his drawings based on artist announcements and posters and the Three Day Weekends—are related in terms of the issues they raise. The most obvious is what Muller has referred to ...
Galleries at the Interchurch Center: Indomitable Spirit - Paintings of Faith, Hope and Remembrance by Christina Saj
Ms. Sajs exhibition consists of modern icons depicting the myths and symbols which have shaped our civilization, both religious and secular, throughout the passage of time and history. There is nothing ponderous or portentous about these works....
d.u.m.b.o. arts center: Future Species: An Exhibition in Association with the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
While there is fierce debate surrounding the social, political cultural and ethical implications of the human relationship to technology, ‘Future Species’ is undaunted in its embrace of both uncertainty and inevitability. It examines what the b...
National Gallery of Canada: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTIST: SELF-PORTRAITS AND PORTRAITS
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to observe a captivating and diverse selection of portraits, some light-hearted and humorous in tone, others more serious and reflective in nature, said Pierre Théberge, Director, Na...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Body of Work: The Human Figure from Degas to Diebenkorn
“The human figure has been a significant genre throughout the history of art. To examine the human figure and the techniques and styles in its depiction throughout the 20th century is the motivation behind organizing A Body of Work: The Human Figu...
Plug In, ICA: Dominique Rey: Selling Venus
Rey uncovers illusions and stereotypes about a sub-culture of women in extreme feminine roles, and re-opens the debate on the victimization of women in oppressive and exploitive environments. Photographed in the intimacy of their dressing room, th...
Columbia Museum of Art: Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings
Among the many artists represented in the exhibition are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Philip Pearlstein and Benjamin West. Through drawings, the viewer ca...
Visual Arts League at Johnson Med. School-Univ. of Med. and Dent.: 3 Americas! Brings Together Works from the Western Hemisphere
We will get a fresh concept of America by looking at these faces and figures from all over the great strip of ...
Sculpture Center: The Happiness of Objects: A Group Exhibition
In the attempt to crystallize some of the main points of Mitchell’s hypothesis, the exhibition proposes The Object’s Bill of Rights, a non-exhaustive and disputable list. This will serve as criteria for the exhibition, and a working docum...
Silvermine Guild Arts Center: Spectra '04 National Photography Triennial
SUSAN SCAFATI PHOTOGRAPHY has received the Barbara Lans Memorial Award for "Descent" from The Italy Series. The exhibition was juried by Barbara Hitchcock who says of the exhibit, “Imagination found its voice in the work of a number of photograph...
Bayly Art Museum: Charlottesville Collects
“We think our visitors will be both surprised and delighted to see the wonderful works in Charlottesville Collects,” says Jill Hartz, director of the Bayly Art Museum. “We are thrilled to share these works with the public, and are so grateful ...
d.u.m.b.o. arts center: bits ‘n’ pieces: Curated by Beth Venn
The components forming Jane South’s elaborate constructions are made from paper, and are hooked and hung together to create a meandering wonder of engineering. Each discrete but interdependent element joins with its shadow to generate a structu...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Sculpture Center: Ayse Erkmen: Busy Colors
Twin images of a small, jewel-like metal object (a sculpture of a landmine) are scaled up to billboard proportions and cover the entire 3,000 square foot surface of the courtyard. Inside, SculptureCenters main exhibition space remains empty of obj...
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
"Frank Lloyd Wright is such a giant figure in the story of 20th-century American culture, architecture and design," said Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The museum is delighted to pr...

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