Milton Avery

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Milton Clark Avery (born March 7, 1885 in Altmar , New York , † January 3, 1965 in Woodstock , New York) was an American painter .

Life

Avery grew up in a family of tanners . At the age of 16 he was already working in various auxiliary jobs with which he supported himself and his family, which he continued later, sometimes in night shifts. When his brother-in-law died in 1915, he was the only remaining male member of the family with a duty to provide for the family. His interest in art led him to take classes with the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford , Connecticut . In 1924 he met the art student and graphic artist Sally Michel, whom he married in 1926. Michel's income enabled him to focus on painting. During the 1920s and 1930s, Avery also served in the Art Students League of New York . Roy Neuberger began to promote him and bought over 100 of his works, which was Avery's artistic breakthrough after years of activity. In 1929 the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC bought his works for the first time ; the first solo exhibition of his works took place there in 1944. In 1963 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

style

Avery is often referred to as an American Matisse , for example in 1981 in the New York Times , which refers to his variety of colors and the flatness of his landscape paintings. Color relationships were more important to him than perspective depth effects . While it was initially thought to be too abstract, after Expressionism became popular, it was considered too naive. Other influences are attributed to Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko .

Avery was a taciturn person. He was buried in the Artist Cemetery in Woodstock , New York. In 1965, Sally Avery deposited the personal records in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution . These have also been available online since 2007. His daughter March Avery is also a painter.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1962: Milton Avery retrospective, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
  • 1968: Milton Avery , Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
  • 1969: Milton Avery , Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
  • 1980: Milton Avery / MATRIX 34 , University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
  • 1982: Milton Avery in Mexico and After , Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
  • 1983: Milton Avery , The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
  • 1990: Milton Avery in Black and White: Drawings 1929−59 , Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
  • 1990: Milton Avery: Works from the 1950s , The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
  • 1994: Milton Avery: Works on Paper , The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • 1997: Milton Avery's Ebb & Flow , Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park
  • 2001/02: Milton Avery - the late paintings , Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, as well as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
  • 2008: Milton Avery - The Kaufman Collection , Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs
  • 2011: Milton Avery and the End of Modernism , Nassau County Museum of Art

Group exhibitions

  • 1945: 58th Annual Exhibition Of Contemporary American Paintings , Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • 1953: Whitney Museum Annual - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
  • 1960: Ten Modern Masters Of American Art - 30 Works Selected From The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection , Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • 1971: Ways of Looking , Museum of Modern Art , New York City
  • 1989: American Modernism , The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
  • 2000: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection , Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City
  • 2002: American Masters - Paintings from the Collection of the Portland Art Museum , Boise Art Museum
  • 2002: The Tiger's Eye - The Art of a Magazine , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
  • 2003: Watercolors from the Collection , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
  • 2008: Coming of Age. Arte americana dal 1850 al 1950 , Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
  • 2010: WaterWays , The Rose Art Museum, Waltham
  • 2012: American Moderns , Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City
  • 2013: 20th-Century American Art , Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse

literature

  • Breeskin, Adelyn: Milton Avery . New York: American Federation of Arts, 1960.
  • Breeskin, Adelyn: Milton Avery . Washington: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1969.
  • Chernow, Bert: Milton Avery: a singular vision, Center for Fine Arts, Miami. Miami, Florida: Trustees of Center for Fine Arts Association. 1987.
  • Grad, Bonnie Lee: Milton Avery Monotype . Princeton University Library, 1977.
  • Grad, Bonnie Lee: Milton Avery . Foreword by Sally Michel Avery. Royal Oak, Michigan: Strathcona, 1981.
  • Haskell, Barbara: Milton Avery: Metaphysics of Color , Westchester, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1994.
  • Haskell, Barbara: Milton Avery . New York: Harper & Row Publishers in association with Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1982.
  • Hobbs, Robert (2007): Milton Avery . Hudson Hills Press. ISBN 0-933920-95-4 , ISBN 978-0-933920-95-8 .
  • Hobbs, Robert (2001): Milton Avery: late paintings . New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-4274-7 .
  • Johnson, Una E .: Milton Avery Prints and Drawings 1930-1960 . New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1966.
  • Kramer, Hilton : Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960 . New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962.
  • Kramer, Hilton: Avery: Our Greatest Colorist . New York Times, April 12, 1981.
  • Wilkin, Karen : Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada . ISBN 0-88911-403-X .
  • Interview with Sally Avery, 1982
  • Interview with Sally Avery, 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Milton Avery estate with biography in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art .
  2. ^ A b Bert Chernow: Milton Avery. Miami, Florida 1987, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Book of Members, 1780-2010 . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Hilton Kramer: Avery- "Our Greatest Colorist". New York Times , April 12, 1981.
  5. ^ Clement Greenberg: Milton Avery . In: Arts Magazine . Vol. 32, 1957, pp. 39-46.
  6. ↑ cf. the biography in the Davistown Museum in Liberty (Maine).
  7. ^ Mark Rothko : Commemorative Essay for the New York Society for Ethical Culture , Jan. 7, 1965. In: Adelyn D. Breeskin: Milton Avery. National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington 1969.
  8. ^ Milton Avery in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved August 9, 2018. .
  9. ↑ Milton Avery / MATRIX 34 in the archives of the Berkeley Art Museum.
  10. ↑ Martha Schwendener: Approaching Abstraction, but Not Quite Getting There. New York Times , February 18, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Avery, Milton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avery, Milton Clark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Altmar (New York)
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1965
Place of death Woodstock (New York)