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| ▲ Milton Avery Two Poets, 1963 Oil on canvas 127 x 152.4 cm 50 x 60 in, Courtesy of Victoria Miro |
One of the most powerful paintings of the 20th century, Milton Avery (1885–1965) is known for his luminous paintings of landscapes, portraits and still lifes.
Born in 1885 in Altmar, New York, Milton Avery moved with his family to Hartford, Connecticut in 1905. Avery moved to New York in 1925 and married Sally Michel in 1926. It was not until 1935 that he had his first solo exhibition at the Last Gallery in New York. In 1944 his first solo exhibition was held at Phillips Miniatures in Washington DC. In 1952 he visited Europe for the first time, traveling to London, Paris and the French Riviera. 1960 Whitney Location Retrospective, New York; The second retrospective was held in Whitney Wall, USA in 1982. In 1962 his first paper on Avery was published, Milton Avery: Pictures of Hilton Kramer 1930–1960. Milton Avery died on January 3, 1965 in New York at the age of 79.
For the first time in his career, Avery hosted a world-class course. Always reviving images of the world around him, especially those of the landscapes and people he loved, his art is as friendly and approachable as it is towering in ambition and achievement. During the 1930s he profoundly influenced and produced future abstract expressers Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman among his fellow players. Rothko particularly appreciated Avery Work's "captivating lyricism". Avery, however, tried to express his ideas in the simplest form, but he never opened pure abstraction for himself. Above all, he is a company that resists classification. In 1952 he said, "I have no rules to follow." “I certify myself.”
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Avery's work is exhibited in museums and private collections worldwide, including: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Seomyeon, Los Angeles, California; at the New York Metropolitan; Mexico, Delivery, Massachusetts; near Modern New York; National History, Washington DC; Australian Standard Time, Canberra; Pennsylvania Tablets; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Chile Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Pat, London; Thyssen-Bornemisza Mexico, Mexico, Spain; PC Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Whitney, New York; Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Mood in Fort Worth is a major retrospective of Avery's work presented by the Royal Academy of Arts London in collaboration with the Fort Worth Contemporary Court and the Wadsworth Athenaeum Works in Hartford, Connecticut. , Fort Worth, November 7). 2021-30 January 2022), Wadsworth Atheneum (24 February-5 June 2022) and Royal Academy of Arts (15 July-16 October 2022).
The above is an excerpt from the Victoria Miro website.
