Milton Avery

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An essential overview of the beloved master colorist and pioneer of American modernism. Born in 1885 to a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery left school at 16 to work in a factory. Intending to study lettering but soon transferring to painting, he attended evening school for fifteen years before moving to New York in the 1920s to pursue a career as a painter. Although he never identified with a particular movement, Avery was a sociable member of the New York art scene. He became a figure of considerable influence for a younger generation of American artists, including Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. His talent was praised by Rothko, who said ' the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the last touch of the brush' . Edith Devaney introduces Avery and his work, while Erin Monroe looks at Avery' s early years in Hartford, and Marla Price examines Matisse' s influence upon his art. A conversation with the artist' s daughter March Avery Cavanaugh and an illustrated chronology by Isabella Boorman complete the book. SELLING POINTS: . An authoritative study of the artist Milton Avery, an influence on the generation of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman . Published to accompany a travelling exhibition: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas: 7 November 2021 30 January 2022; The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut: 24 February 5 June 2022; Royal Academy of Arts, London: 16 July - 16 October 2022 120 illustrations