Artist: Milton Avery (1885 - 1965)
Nationality: American
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Milton Avery spent most of his career working in New York, executing his paintings in the innovative style of Matisse. He was the sole exponent of this style until the next generation of artists such as Rothko and Gottlieb emerged on the scene in the 1940’s. Although never converting to abstraction, his later work boarders on the non-representational realm.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Milton Avery - Sally Avery with Still Life 1926 oil on cotton Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Child Cutting (A Study of Maarch Avery) 1936 etching Arkansas Arts Center American
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Milton Avery Hen woodcut 1958
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© 2001 Milton Avery Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Milton Clark Avery,
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© 2001 Milton Avery Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Milton Clark Avery,
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© 2002 Milton Avery Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Milton Clark Avery,
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, By the Sea drypoint 1948
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Milton Avery Self-Portrait drypoint 1937
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, Head of a Man drypoint 1935
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Artist: Milton Avery Title: Birds and Sea Date: 1955 Medium: woodcut in blue ink Dimensions:
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Milton Avery Gray Sea color transfer lithograph on zinc 1963
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Milton Avery March at a Table drypoint 1948
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, Riders in the Park drypoint 1934
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, Reclining Nude drypoint 1948
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Milton Avery Laurels Portfolio, No. 4, March at a Table drypoint 1948
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MIlton Avery - Haircut by the Sea 1943 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Diaries of Samuel P. Avery, 1871-1882 Author: Samuel Putnam Avery (American, 1822-1904)Bound manuscript; 5 vols.;
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Sarah Miriam Peale - Susan Avery 1821 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Sarah Miriam Peale - Isaac Avery 1821 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Milton Avery - The Blue Blouse 1958 Oil on canvas board Vero Beach Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Studious Sketcher 1945 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Amusement Park c. 1929 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Child and Mother 1946 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Mountain and Meadow 1960 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Milton Avery - Sea Grasses and Blue Sea 1958 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Milton Avery - Blue Gown 1944 Oil on Canvas Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Milton Avery - Man Fishing c. 1938 oil on fiberboard Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Samuel P. Avery (1822-1904), 1876 Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, 1841-1920)Oil on wood; 24
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S. P. Avery, Engraver on Wood, 1800s Author: Samuel Putnam Avery (American, 1822-1904)New York: [s.n.],
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Milton Avery - East Hartford Meadows 1922 Oil on upsom board Florence Griswold Museum American
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Milton Avery - Nude with Red Drape 1956 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Spring Orchard 1959 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Nude with Guitar 1947 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Black Goat, White Goat 1958 Ink, color pencil Arkansas Arts Center American
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Milton Avery - Untitled (Harbor Scene) c. 1921-1925 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Autographs and Sketches from Artist Friends to Samuel P. Avery, 1874-1880 Author: Samuel Putnam Avery
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Milton Avery - Portrait of Louis M. Eilshemius 1942 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Milton Avery - Untitled (Rock and Water View) c. 1921-1925 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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LÈopold Flameng Portrait of T.P. Avery 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf Portrait of Samuel P. Avery 19th - 20th century
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Gilbert Stuart Newton, American (born in Canada), 1794-1835 The Farewell about 1826 Oil on paperboard
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Randolph Rogers Bust of Milton S. Latham marble 1860
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Ralph Avery - Peonies n.d. watercolor and gouac Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Edwin Avery Park - Down East 1928 Watercolor on paper Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Avery, English, 1772-1807 Chamber organ England, (London), 1792 Mahogany 117 x 100.5 x 54
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William Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905 Fraternal Love 1851 Oil on canvas 147 x 113.7 cm
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Eugène Isabey, French, 1803-1886 Stormy Weather about 1836 Lithograph on cream wove paper Image: 11.1
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Unidentified artist, British, 19th century Portrait of a Woman Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5
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Ralph Avery - Brooklyn Bridge, New York n.d. watercolor and gouac Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Marked by Isaac Callard Ladle flatware London, England England, (London), about 1750 Silver W. 7.6
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Ralph Avery - The Upper Falls, Rochester 1955 watercolor, gouache Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Ralph Avery - The Garden of Charlotte Whitney Allen 1969 watercolor with grap Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Jacobus Houbraken (John Milton) 1741
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Thomas Milton Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene I 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Milton Historical Illustration 18th - 19th century
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Anonymous Goblet with Milton Pleat pattern pressed lead glass circa 1860
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Samuel Palmer The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) book with 12 etchings 1889
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Henry Wolf Milton and Galileo 19th - 20th century
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Joseph Swain Illustration to a Poem by Milton 19th - 20th century
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Ralph Avery - Trinity Church and World Trade Center, New York c. 1975 watercolor and gouac Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Milton Goldstein Rooster Encaustic Etching 20th century
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Lt. Huntington Frothingham Wolcott 1867 Oil on canvas 154.94 x
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Henry Wolf Milton visiting Galileo wood engraving 19th - 20th century
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani John Milton Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani John Milton Etching 1740
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George Vertue Portrait of Joannes Milton engraving 1736
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George Vertue Portrait of Joannes Milton engraving 1736
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani Bust of John Milton Etching 1740
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John Cage Variations III 1992
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John Cage Plate arrangement cards for Dereau 1982
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Myles Birket Foster Portrait of Milton (from the picture by Samuel Cooper), title page vignette and illustration 1 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W. Kent & Co., 1859) et
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Ralph Avery - Jonathan Child House, South Washington Street, Rochester n.d. watercolor and gouac Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani John Milton Etching 18th century
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Grandparents - Baptism Boy
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Sir Thomas Lawrence, British, 1769-1830 Sir Uvedale Price, Baronet about 1799 Oil on canvas 76.2
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Thomas Rowlandson A Parody on Milton Etching with handcolor 1810
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Peter Milton Les Belles et La BÍte I: The Rehearsal Etching with engraving 1977
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John Cage HV 10 Monotype printed in green 1983
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John Cage (K) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage (G) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage (F) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage (C) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage (D) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage (A) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage (B) of Signals 20th century
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John Cage Signals 20th century
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Samuel Palmer Lycidas, illustration to the poem Lycidas, opposite page 2 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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John Cage Missing Stone 1989
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Peter Milton Les Belles et La BÍte II: Before the Hunt Etching with engraving 1978
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Samuel Palmer The Curfew, first illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 22 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Peter Milton Interiors I: Family Reunion Etching and engraving 1984
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Samuel Palmer The Prospect, second illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 14 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Bellman, second illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 26 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Peter Milton Collecting With Rudi etching with engraving 1974
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George Hollingsworth, American, 1813-1882 Captain Fisher of Milton about 1840-50 Oil on canvas 91.12 x
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Samuel Palmer The Eastern Gate, first illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 10 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer A Towered City, third illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 18 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Dell of Comus, second illustration to the poem Comus, opposite page 60 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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John Cage Score for Signals Graphite 1978
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Samuel Palmer The Lonely Tower, third illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 30 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (26)
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Milwaukee Art Museum: Milton Avery: The Late Paintings
This will be the most comprehensive consideration to date of Avery’s late work; it will provide a new generation of viewers with the opportunity to see many of his largest canvases created between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. While this ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Welcome Home Milton!
Milton Avery brought together simple, spare forms and harmonious colors to build patterns of flat, interlocking shapes reminiscent of French artist Henri Matisse. He frequently ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: Flights of Reality: Charles Avery, Matthew Ritchie, Keith Tyson, Grace Weir, Keith Wilson
The unfinished, and improvised nature of the works could be described as thoughts in progress mapping out patterns of the possible, or the debris of ideas that remain from the collision between science and the everyday. In their creation of new...
Tai Koo Place: Future Art Group: An Exhibition for Universal Peace and Friendship
Future Art Group is found in 1997, in Denmark by Frank Mothe. With Artlove and Peace, artists help each other to exchange ideas about art projects, and exhibitions. Therefore members from around the wor...
Stedelijk Museum: Avery Preesman - Bedrock
Rocky ground enclosed, a work-title used by Preesman in 1998 in his studio, inspired his good friend Maarten van Hinte to write a poem called Bedrock: 'Not just me. Tens. Hundreds. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people washing asho...
Frye Art Museum: Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg
The monotype process involves drawing or painting on a flat surface and then transferring the image by means of pressure onto a sheet of paper. Only one strong impression can be taken. Weisberg uses oil paint and printing ink, applying the med...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Summer Selections: American Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
The origins of the Metropolitan's collection of American works on paper can be traced to the 1880s—the decade after the Museum was founded. Now numbering more than 1,500 ...
Visual Art League: Funding for Visual Online Experiments
See an example at: http://www.fine-art.com/valweb/floatart/about_floatart.htm The Visual Arts League began 7 years ago. There have been many ...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: ART and LAND: Contemporary Australian Visions
The exhibition explores the idea that the representation of the land is culturally constructed. Rather than a window through to an unmediated landscape, the works explore the frame and the glass of the window as much as the view. They explore the ...
Everson Musuem of Art: Still Life Paintings from the Collection
Lie’s painting did not engender the same puzzlement or derision as did some of the works shown at the Armory by his more experimental colleagues (Duchamp’s Nude Descendi...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Dave Muller: Posters and Three Day Weekend

Although they take different forms, Mullers parallel art activities—his drawings based on artist announcements and posters and the Three Day Weekends—are related in terms of the issues they raise. The most obvious is what Muller has referred to ...
Galleries at the Interchurch Center: Indomitable Spirit - Paintings of Faith, Hope and Remembrance by Christina Saj
Ms. Sajs exhibition consists of modern icons depicting the myths and symbols which have shaped our civilization, both religious and secular, throughout the passage of time and history. There is nothing ponderous or portentous about these works....
d.u.m.b.o. arts center: Future Species: An Exhibition in Association with the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
While there is fierce debate surrounding the social, political cultural and ethical implications of the human relationship to technology, ‘Future Species’ is undaunted in its embrace of both uncertainty and inevitability. It examines what the b...
National Gallery of Canada: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTIST: SELF-PORTRAITS AND PORTRAITS
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to observe a captivating and diverse selection of portraits, some light-hearted and humorous in tone, others more serious and reflective in nature, said Pierre Théberge, Director, Na...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Body of Work: The Human Figure from Degas to Diebenkorn
“The human figure has been a significant genre throughout the history of art. To examine the human figure and the techniques and styles in its depiction throughout the 20th century is the motivation behind organizing A Body of Work: The Human Figu...
Plug In, ICA: Dominique Rey: Selling Venus
Rey uncovers illusions and stereotypes about a sub-culture of women in extreme feminine roles, and re-opens the debate on the victimization of women in oppressive and exploitive environments. Photographed in the intimacy of their dressing room, th...
Columbia Museum of Art: Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings
Among the many artists represented in the exhibition are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Philip Pearlstein and Benjamin West. Through drawings, the viewer ca...
Visual Arts League at Johnson Med. School-Univ. of Med. and Dent.: 3 Americas! Brings Together Works from the Western Hemisphere
We will get a fresh concept of America by looking at these faces and figures from all over the great strip of ...
Silvermine Guild Arts Center: Spectra '04 National Photography Triennial
SUSAN SCAFATI PHOTOGRAPHY has received the Barbara Lans Memorial Award for "Descent" from The Italy Series. The exhibition was juried by Barbara Hitchcock who says of the exhibit, “Imagination found its voice in the work of a number of photograph...
Bayly Art Museum: Charlottesville Collects
“We think our visitors will be both surprised and delighted to see the wonderful works in Charlottesville Collects,” says Jill Hartz, director of the Bayly Art Museum. “We are thrilled to share these works with the public, and are so grateful ...
d.u.m.b.o. arts center: bits ‘n’ pieces: Curated by Beth Venn
The components forming Jane South’s elaborate constructions are made from paper, and are hooked and hung together to create a meandering wonder of engineering. Each discrete but interdependent element joins with its shadow to generate a structu...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Sculpture Center: Ayse Erkmen: Busy Colors
Twin images of a small, jewel-like metal object (a sculpture of a landmine) are scaled up to billboard proportions and cover the entire 3,000 square foot surface of the courtyard. Inside, SculptureCenters main exhibition space remains empty of obj...
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
"Frank Lloyd Wright is such a giant figure in the story of 20th-century American culture, architecture and design," said Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The museum is delighted to pr...

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