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.<\/p>\n
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 of his work ‘the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the last touch of the brush’.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An authoritative study of the artist Milton Avery, an influence on the generation of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
Foreword 13
\nAcknowledgements 16
\nMilton Avery: ‘Poet-Inventor’ 19
\nEdith Devaney
\nThe Landscape of Milton Avery’s 31
\nConnecticut Years
\nErin C. Monroe
\nAvery and Matisse 37
\nMarla Price
\nUnderstanding Milton Avery 45
\nA conversation with his daughter March Avery
\nCavanaugh and his grandson Sean Cavanaugh
\nWaqas Wajahat
\nCatalogue plates
\nEarly Work: Landscape 54
\nEarly Work: The City 72
\nEarly Work: Domestic 82
\nPortraits 90
\nInnovation in Colour and Form 98
\nLate Work 114
\nChronology 137
\nIsabella Boorman
\nEndnotes 144
\nFurther Reading 146
\nLenders to the Exhibition 146
\nPhotographic Acknowledgements 147
\nIndex 148<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31136,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25632","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-edith-devaney","8":"author-by-author-erin-monroe","9":"author-by-author-march-avery-cavanaugh","10":"author-by-author-marla-price","11":"author-by-author-waqas-wajahat","12":"publisher-royal-academy-of-arts","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n