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New Orleans / Aspen

Milton Avery

(American, 1885–1965)

sleeping sally by milton avery

Milton Avery

Sleeping Sally, 1949

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Biography

Timeline

1885
Born in Sand Bank, NY
1905 - 1918
Studied in art at the Connecticut League of Art Students on a part-time basis, Hartford, CT
Became a member of the Connecticut Academy of the Fine Arts, Avon, CT
1919
Won the Top Honors at the School of the Art Society of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1926 - 1938
Enrolled in classes at the Art Students League and frequented sketch classes, New York, NY
1965
Died in Woodstock, NY

Exhibitions

2009
Milton Avery, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Placing Avery: Paintings and Prints from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, The UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Milton Avery from the Kaufman Collection, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL
SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2007
Landscape: Form and Thought, Ingrao Gallery, New York, NY
Magical Means: Milton Avery and Watercolor, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY (solo)
2006
Milton Avery and the sea: Works on Paper, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Marine: Paintings of the Sea, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, UK
Milton Avery: A Retrospective of Nudes, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Continuum : 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
2004
Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors: Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (solo)
Watercolors from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2003
Milton Avery: Select Works 1933 - 1963, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Painting and Sculpture From The Harn Museum Collection,Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Drawings, Drawings, Drawings, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Milton Avery: Late Work, Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951 - 63, Waddington Galleries, London, UK (solo)
2000
The Cities Collect, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, New York , NY
1999
Modernist Selections, Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
Color & Field, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
Milton Avery, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Tate Britain, London,U.K
Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH
Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
University of Kentucky Art Museum (UK Art Museum), Lexington, KY
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Literature

2001
Hobbs, Robert. Milton Avery: The Late Paintings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001
1990
Hobbs, Robert. Milton Avery. New York: Hudson Hills Press,1990
English (US)

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