It’s a distinctively American piece of modernist landscape painting that still feels fresh 80 years on. On his move to New York in 1925, however, Avery tackled the urban world head-on.

Milton Avery Made Art by Subtracting From Nature In his influential paintings, the American artist turned people and landscapes into abstract forms. By Susan Delson Updated Oct. 29, 2021 4:38 pm ET ...

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 ...

The exhibit starts at the beginning of Avery's career, with his early Hartford landscapes dating to 1918, reminiscent of impressionist paintings of Monet and Van Gogh.

Avery was born to a working-class family from Hartford, Connecticut, said Laura Freeman in The Times. He started off painting “pleasant, passable landscapes, more or less after Monet”.

Milton Avery might too easily be dismissed as a middling painter of landscapes and people. His early works often reveal the artist reaching for a kind of painting that perhaps he was not capable ...

MAM MAM exhibits late works of Milton Avery MIlwaukee Art Museum offers up a pair of intriguing shows of paintings by American artist Milton Avery and also spotlights Elizabeth Catlett.

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 ...

I’ve always been bemused by the American painter, Milton Avery. Not having seen enough of his paintings together, I couldn’t gauge if they are quirkily naive – lodged in a cul de sac aside from the ...

Yellow Grasses perfectly exemplifies Avery's late '50’s landscapes and his mature artistic style, which had become more simplified in its emphasis on creative colors, lyrical movement and a horizontal ...

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 was an American painter celebrated for his portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Working with both oils and watercolors, he used broad swaths of luminous color and stylized forms, to ...