American art before Pollock and Warhol is murky territory for most of us, a blurry fug of provincial post-impressionism and dirty social realism over which the shadow of the great depression looms ...

Milton Avery sometimes boasted, not quite tongue-in-cheek, that he could make a tube of paint last longer than any other artist. His signature technique involved thinning the pigment to ...

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — in Avery’s hometown of Hartford — hosts the first retrospective of his work in the US in four decades. HARTFORD — Where does Milton Avery belong? It’s a perennial ...

Although he died in 1965, American artist Milton Avery is a man for our frazzled times. His paintings can calm a jangled day. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg says Avery drew and painted ...

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 of ...

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 ...

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Milton Avery was “a colossus of 20th century painting”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. While his name might not be familiar to many Europeans, he was a seminal figure in American art.

Although he died nearly 60 year ago, Milton Avery is very much a man for our times. He drew and painted things he knew, and helped viewers see them his way — works with colors and shapes. Although he ...