Shows in Hartford and New York spotlight great works by Milton Avery from every decade, and those of Sally Michel, who helped shape her husband’s art. By Roberta Smith HARTFORD, Conn. — There has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — in Avery’s hometown of Hartford — hosts the first retrospective of his work in the US in four decades. HARTFORD — Where does Milton Avery belong? It’s a perennial ...

Avery was already 60 when, in the mid 1940s, he began transcribing people and places into areas of flat colour on canvas; and there’s a whole room of earlier explorations to plough through before ...

"Milton Avery," Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1969, no. 31. "Milton Avery: Works from the 1950s in the Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth," ...

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 ...

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Milton Avery, the famed mid-20th century painter whose first gallery exhibit was a group show at the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1915, is on that museum’s walls again over a century later. This time it’s ...

Nothing is ever entirely flat in a Milton Avery painting. There is always some movement, a throb or a flicker in his application of paint that slightly, gently moves the eye and holds us there.

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.

Figurative painter Milton Avery once said "I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea." Well, we all get a unique opportunity to view ...