Milton avery paintings
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A beginner's guide to Milton Avery
Published on 11 July 2022
Don’t know Milton Avery? Here’s our handy guide to the visionary artist who influenced Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.
He was a master of colour
Artists and critics alike have lauded Avery's employment and application of colour on canvas.
In 1952 the revered artist-teacher Hans Hofmann said that: “Avery was one of the first to understand colour as a creative means. He was one of the first to relate colours in a plastic way.”
From his early Impressionist landscapes to his later paintings of bright, flattened forms, Avery's career is marked by a brilliant intuition for colour.
He was a factory worker before he was an artist
Born in 1885 into a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery's path to being a painter wasn't clear cut. He left school at 16 and spent a decade working in different factory jobs as an aligner, an assembler, a latheman and a mechanic.
In 1905, Avery took the first step towards becoming an artist when he enrolled in a night class in commercial lettering in Connectic
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Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Milton Avery was born in 1885 in upstate New York, the youngest of four children in a working-class family. He studied at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford from 1905 to 1918 and then at the Art Society in Hartford. Obliged by family circumstances to work from an early age, Avery did not achieve his goal of becoming a serious, full-time painter until he moved to New York City in 1925. His early years account for a rigorous work ethic.
Although Avery exhibited extensively during the 1930s, it is generally agreed that the mature phase of his career began after he joined the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in 1943. Rosenberg was associated with the European avant-garde and also represented Americans Max Weber and Marsden Hartley. Critically well respected throughout his career, Avery always stood firmly outside of prevailing art world trends. His emergence as a major figure in mid-20th century American art came during the 1960s, when the upheavals that had occurred during the previous decade caused his achievement to be reevaluated in a new lig
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Milton Avery
American artist (1885–1965)
Milton Clark Avery (; March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965[1]) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father of artist March Avery.[2]
Early life
The son of a tanner, Avery began working at a local factory at the age of 16 and supported himself for decades with a succession of blue-collar jobs. The death of his brother-in-law in 1915 left Avery, as the sole remaining adult male in his household, responsible for the support of nine female relatives.[3] His interest in art led him to attend classes at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford, and over a period of years, he painted in obscurity while receiving a conservative art education.[3] In 1917, he began working night jobs in order to paint in the daytime.[citation needed]
In 1924, he met Sally Michel, a young art student, and in 1926, they married. Her income as an illustrator enab
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