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Milton Avery / [Milton Avery ; Texts by Edith Devaney, Erin C. Monroe, Marla Price, Waqas Wajahat, Isabella Boorman].
LIBRA ND237.A85 A4 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avery, Milton, 1885-1965, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Avery, Milton, 1885-1965--Exhibitions.
- Avery, Milton.
- Avery, Milton, 1885-1965.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 150 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2021]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Catalog of the exhibition held at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, November 2021-January 30, 2022, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Fenruary 24-June 5, 2022, and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 16-October 16, 2022
- Includes texts by Edith Devaney, Erin C. Monroe, Marla Price, and Waqas Wajahat
- Includes bibliographical references (page 146) and index.
- Contains:
- Avery, Milton, 1885-1965. Paintings. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 1912520435
- 9781912520435
- OCLC:
- 1255596596
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