Milton Avery
"Hilltop" ©1936
graphite on paper
8" x 10"
"Flight" 1953
color woodcut
edition of 100
7" x 9" (SOLD)
"March at a Table"
etching
edition of 100
16" x 13" (SOLD)
"Blue Rooster" ©1953
color woodcut
edition of 100
9.50" x 7.25" (SOLD)
About the Artist
“What was Avery's repertoire? His living room, Central Park, his wife Sally, his daughter March, the beaches and mountains where they summered; cows, fish heads, the flight of birds; his friends and whatever world strayed through his studio: a domestic, unheroic cast. But from these there have been fashioned great canvases, that far from the casual and transitory implications of the subjects, have always a gripping lyricism, and often achieve the permanence and monumentality of Egypt.”
— Mark Rothko in his Commemorative Essay delivered at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, January 7, 1965, reprinted in Adelyn D. Breeskin’s Milton Avery from 1969.
“He was, without question, our greatest colorist... Among his European contemporaries, only Matisse—to whose art he owed much, of course—produced a greater achievement in this respect.”
— Hilton Kramer, art critic, from "Avery - Our Greatest Colorist" in the April 12, 1981 edition of The New York Times.
