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

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2021]Description: 150 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1912520435
  • 9781912520435
Contained works:
  • Avery, Milton, 1885-1965. Paintings. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Milton Avery : "poet-inventor" / Edith Devaney -- The landscape of Milton Avery's Connecticut years / Erin C. Monroe -- Avery and Matisse / Marla Price -- Understanding Milton Avery : a conversation with his daughter March Avery Cavanaugh and his grandson Sean Cavanaugh / Waqas Wajahat -- Catalogue plates : Early work: Landscape ; Early work: The city ; Early work: Domestic ; Portraits ; Innovation in colour and form ; Late work -- Chronology / Isabella Boorman.
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.
Holdings
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room AVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12281

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 bibliographical references (page 146) and index

Milton Avery : "poet-inventor" / Edith Devaney -- The landscape of Milton Avery's Connecticut years / Erin C. Monroe -- Avery and Matisse / Marla Price -- Understanding Milton Avery : a conversation with his daughter March Avery Cavanaugh and his grandson Sean Cavanaugh / Waqas Wajahat -- Catalogue plates : Early work: Landscape ; Early work: The city ; Early work: Domestic ; Portraits ; Innovation in colour and form ; Late work -- Chronology / Isabella Boorman.

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.