America’s most original colorist, the subject of new retrospective at the Wadsworth Atheneum, was inspired by Matisse, and in turn inspired Rothko.
Milton Avery: The Green Settee (detail: dog on a lap), 1943. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
There’s more photography to come, but in order that my blog posts don’t become monotonous I am going to mix it up with some features on mid-century painters. I’m intending to look at some of the artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, followed by artists (sometimes erroneously) associated with Pop Art. And in no particular order…I’m starting with Milton Avery, mainly because his colourful semi-abstracted landscapes are in the same area that I’m currently working in, albeit in a very different style. Milton Avery (1893 – 1965) was born at Sand Bank, New York. After studying for a while at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford under Charles Noel Flagg and at the Art Society School there under Albertus Jones, Avery worked in manufacturing and with an insurance company until 1924. He moved to New York in 1925 and married the artist Sally Michel, an illustrator, a year later. He had his first one-man show as early as 1928 at the Opportunity Gallery in New York. The decades that followed saw him show work at numerous exhibitions mounted by New York galleries and American museums. Milton Avery's preoccupation with French Fauvism and German Expressionism led him to develop a simplified formal idiom distinguished by clarity of line and an expressive palette. Whereas Avery's early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse. As the American upholder of Matisse's colouristic doctrine, Milton Avery developed the French artist's decorative colour surfaces into subtly toned colour zones, thus breaking the ground for the Colour Field painting of Mark Rothko (see blog post July 2010) and Adolph Gottlieb (blog post to come), both of whom were friends of his. Even though his style was close to abstraction, Milton Avery nonetheless clung to representation throughout his entire career. Classical motifs and subject matter in portraits, still lifes and coastal landscapes were his main thematic areas and genres. Prolific as a painter, graphic artist and ceramist, Milton Avery received numerous awards from American art institutions before he died in 1965 although he only really became famous posthumously. He is now acclaimed as one of the most influential American C20th artists. 1930 The Artist's Wife 1936 Vermont Hills 1940 Gaspe - Pink Sky 1942 Woman Drawing 1943 Landscape 1944 Autumn 1944 Bridge to the Sea 1944 Sketching by the Sea 1945 Girl in Scarf 1945 Spring in Vermont 1945 Three Cows on Hillside 1946 Homework 1947 Oregon Coast 1950 March and Sally Outdoors 1951 Clear Cut Landscape 1952 Breaking Sea 1952 Shapes of Spring 1953 Advancing Sea 1953 Dancing Trees 1953 Excursion on the Thames 1954 Green Sea 1954 White Wave 1955 Spring Brook 1957 Birds Over Sea 1957 White Moon 1958 Green Sea 1958 Offshore Island 1958 Onrushing Wave 1958 Sea Grasses and Blue Sea Yellow Sky 1959 Black Sea 1959 Boathouse by the Sea 1959 Gull + Sea 1960 Interlude 1961 Blue Bay and Dunes Gaspé Landscape Beach Study Two Chickens White Rooster
See the colorful paintings by March Avery in her first show at Blum & Poe, New York, on view through September 14.
The self-effacing late starter and mentor to Rothko, with a singular gift for capturing life through colour, bewitches in the first comprehensive show of his work in Europe
First Time Art Party Participant. "My work seeks to explore the nature of humanity and to express the inherent complexity and mystery of our relationships to the world we live in and to each other. I invent scenarios that can be thought of as puzzles with no right or wrong solutions—puzzles that are analogous to the changing and perpetually unresolved nature of life itself. Inspired by Surrealist painters like Salvador Dali and Remedios Varo, my paintings propose an alternate view of our world in an attempt to link our everyday existence to the magic of the subconscious, the uncertain, and the mysterious."
Avery Palmer isn’t the dark, brooding figure his paintings make it seem like he’d be. Looking at his work, I thought I’d be meeting up with an eccentric genius like Thom Yorke. While every bit the genius, there’s something pragmatic and humble that sets Palmer apart from the Thom Yorke crowd. Talkin
1982 limited edition Milton Avery Whitney Museum of American Art "Conversation" framed print.
Purchase the Book Avery Palmer is a painter and sculptor from Arcata, California. Implying bizarre narratives, Palmer’s paintings and sculptures encourage an engagement of the imagination. Inspired most notably by Surrealism, in particular surrealist painter Remedios Varo, his figurative dreamlike art presents ambiguous allegorical scenarios exploring
The artist’s combination of representation and abstraction has left an indelible mark on Post-War American painting
There’s more photography to come, but in order that my blog posts don’t become monotonous I am going to mix it up with some features on mid-century painters. I’m intending to look at some of the artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, followed by artists (sometimes erroneously) associated with Pop Art. And in no particular order…I’m starting with Milton Avery, mainly because his colourful semi-abstracted landscapes are in the same area that I’m currently working in, albeit in a very different style. Milton Avery (1893 – 1965) was born at Sand Bank, New York. After studying for a while at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford under Charles Noel Flagg and at the Art Society School there under Albertus Jones, Avery worked in manufacturing and with an insurance company until 1924. He moved to New York in 1925 and married the artist Sally Michel, an illustrator, a year later. He had his first one-man show as early as 1928 at the Opportunity Gallery in New York. The decades that followed saw him show work at numerous exhibitions mounted by New York galleries and American museums. Milton Avery's preoccupation with French Fauvism and German Expressionism led him to develop a simplified formal idiom distinguished by clarity of line and an expressive palette. Whereas Avery's early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse. As the American upholder of Matisse's colouristic doctrine, Milton Avery developed the French artist's decorative colour surfaces into subtly toned colour zones, thus breaking the ground for the Colour Field painting of Mark Rothko (see blog post July 2010) and Adolph Gottlieb (blog post to come), both of whom were friends of his. Even though his style was close to abstraction, Milton Avery nonetheless clung to representation throughout his entire career. Classical motifs and subject matter in portraits, still lifes and coastal landscapes were his main thematic areas and genres. Prolific as a painter, graphic artist and ceramist, Milton Avery received numerous awards from American art institutions before he died in 1965 although he only really became famous posthumously. He is now acclaimed as one of the most influential American C20th artists. 1930 The Artist's Wife 1936 Vermont Hills 1940 Gaspe - Pink Sky 1942 Woman Drawing 1943 Landscape 1944 Autumn 1944 Bridge to the Sea 1944 Sketching by the Sea 1945 Girl in Scarf 1945 Spring in Vermont 1945 Three Cows on Hillside 1946 Homework 1947 Oregon Coast 1950 March and Sally Outdoors 1951 Clear Cut Landscape 1952 Breaking Sea 1952 Shapes of Spring 1953 Advancing Sea 1953 Dancing Trees 1953 Excursion on the Thames 1954 Green Sea 1954 White Wave 1955 Spring Brook 1957 Birds Over Sea 1957 White Moon 1958 Green Sea 1958 Offshore Island 1958 Onrushing Wave 1958 Sea Grasses and Blue Sea Yellow Sky 1959 Black Sea 1959 Boathouse by the Sea 1959 Gull + Sea 1960 Interlude 1961 Blue Bay and Dunes Gaspé Landscape Beach Study Two Chickens White Rooster
See the colorful paintings by March Avery in her first show at Blum & Poe, New York, on view through September 14.
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Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965), Connecticut Landscape, 1943. Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in.
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Focusing on works done in the final four years of Avery’s career, these portraits depict the people and motifs closest to him
Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery’s life. Characterised by economy of touch and luminescence of colour, the works on view see the artist apply a lifetime of experience to cherished subjects and motifs. Milton Avery (1885–1965) made portraits throughout his
The artist’s combination of representation and abstraction has left an indelible mark on Post-War American painting
See the colorful paintings by March Avery in her first show at Blum & Poe, New York, on view through September 14.
Purchase the Book Avery Palmer is a painter and sculptor from Arcata, California. Implying bizarre narratives, Palmer’s paintings and sculptures encourage an engagement of the imagination. Inspired most notably by Surrealism, in particular surrealist painter Remedios Varo, his figurative dreamlike art presents ambiguous allegorical scenarios exploring
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