Research Catalog

Title

Milton Avery / [[texts by] Edith Devaney, Erin C. Monroe, Marla Price, Waqas Wajahat, Isabella Boorman].

Author

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965

Publication

• London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2021]
• ©2021

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Devaney, Edith
• Monroe, Erin
• Price, Marla
• Wajahat, Waqas
• Karnes, Andrea
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, host institution.
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, host institution.
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Description

150 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 27 cm

Summary

"Born in 1885 to a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery left school at 16 to work in a factory. Intending to study lettering but soon transferring to painting, he attended evening school for 15 years before moving to New York in the 1920s to pursue a career as a painter. Although he never identified with a particular movement, Avery was a sociable member of the New York art scene. He became a figure of considerable influence for a younger generation of American artists, including Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. His talent was praised by Rothko, who said of his work that "the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the last touch of the brush." With more than 100 color reproductions, this volume is the first overview of Avery's pioneering work in many years. Edith Devaney introduces Avery and his work, while Erin Monroe looks at Avery's early years in Hartford, and Marla Price examines Matisse's influence upon his art. A conversation with the artist's daughter March Avery Cavanaugh and an illustrated chronology by Isabella Boorman complete the book." --Amazon.com.

Subject

• Avery, Milton, 1885-1965 > Exhibitions
• Avery, Milton, 1885-1965 > Criticism and interpretation
• Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
• Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painters > United States > Biography
• ART / General

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of the exhibition held at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, November 7, 2021-January 30, 2022; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, February 24-June 5, 2022; and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 16-October 16, 2022.
• The Exhibitions: at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, curator: Edith Devaney; at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, curatorial: Marla Price and Andrea Karnes; at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, curatorial: Erin C. Monroe.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 146) and index

Call Number

ND237.A85

ISBN

• 9781912520435
• 1912520435

OCLC

• 1255596596
• on1255596596
• SCSB-14253097

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries