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Milton Avery

[American Painter, 1893-1965]

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Original works by Milton Avery available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Baby, 1944

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
9 works by Milton Avery

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online

Milton Avery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Dikran G. Kelekian, 1943

Milton Avery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Steeplechase, Coney Island, 1929

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Sea Grasses and Blue Sea, 1958

Milton Avery at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
7 works by Milton Avery

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Portrait of the artist's wife

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
16 works online

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Seaside Strollers, 1963

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Japanese Landscape

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Bridge to the Sea, 1937

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Girl with Cello

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Davistown Museum, Liberty, Maine
Landscape

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Haircut by the Sea

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
Untitled Reclining Figure, print

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Trees Thick and Thin, 1959

Milton Avery at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Self-portrait, drawing, 1938

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Rooster's Domain, 1948

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Rooster's Domain, 1948

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Child's Supper, 1945

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
2005 exhibition of Avery's illustrations and prints. Some superb scans here.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Birds and Sea, 1955

Palm Springs Desert Museum, California   NEW!
Nude Alone, 1941

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Milton Avery online

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Susan with Orchid

San Antonio Art League Museum, Texas
Hopi Village, 1950

San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
The Fencers, 1944

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Offshore Island
Trees and Rocks


Milton Avery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Nude Recumbent (Nude Asleep)

Milton Avery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
23 works online

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Adolescence, 1947
The Checker Players, 1938

University of Kentucky Art Museum
Green Sea, 1958

Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida
The Blue Blouse, 1958

Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Morning News

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
4 works online

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
Repository of Abstract Art

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Milton Avery
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 71): Milton Avery

Milton Avery at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Milton Avery papers online

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Knoedler and Company Show Recognizes Avery's Genius

Time Magazine
"Milton Avery's Rich Fabric of Color", 1982 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
  
 
 
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