American art before Pollock and Warhol is murky territory for most of us, a blurry fug of provincial post-impressionism and dirty social realism over which the shadow of the great depression looms ...

Milton Avery sometimes boasted, not quite tongue-in-cheek, that he could make a tube of paint last longer than any other artist. His signature technique involved thinning the pigment to ...

Milton Avery (1885-1965) worked as an assembler, mechanic and latheman before enrolling in art classes in 1905. In the late 1930's he worked as an artist for the WPA Federal Art Project. Avery focused ...

Milton Avery might too easily be dismissed as a middling painter of landscapes and people. His early works often reveal the artist reaching for a kind of painting that perhaps he was not capable of ...

MIlwaukee Art Museum offers up a pair of intriguing shows of paintings by American artist Milton Avery and also spotlights Elizabeth Catlett. The first survey to explore the late paintings of one of ...

Milton Avery was “a colossus of 20th century painting”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. While his name might not be familiar to many Europeans, he was a seminal figure in American art.

The Royal Academy’s retrospective, the first of its kind in Europe, reveals that, in a way, he was both. He went from being an impressionist whose landscapes look positively 19th century to making ...

Invitingly quirky and rich in subtle hues, the landscapes and other canvases of Milton Avery (1885-1965) made him America's closest approach to Matisse. Avery's 1982 retrospective drew crowds and rave ...

Milton Avery was an American painter celebrated for his portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Working with both oils and watercolors, he used broad swaths of luminous color and stylized forms, to ...

Given Milton Avery’s fondness for broad arabesques and liberated colors, it’s no surprise that he felt completely at home with the medium of watercolor. Starting in his 40s, Avery (1885–1965) turned ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Milton Avery papers were donated in 1968, 1969, and 1982 by his widow Sally Avery, including a few letters previously loaned for microfilming.