Milton Avery
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Milton Clark Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter.
He was born in Altmar, New York, and later moved to Connecticut in 1898 and then to New York City.
Early life
Avery, the son of a tanner, began working at a local factory at the age of 16 and supported himself for decades with a line of blue-collar jobs. Avery, the sole remaining adult male in his household, was blamed for the care of nine female relatives following his brother-in-law's death in 1915. He began attending art lessons at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford, Connecticut, and over a period of years, he painted in obscurity while receiving a conservative art education. He began working late in 1917 in the hopes of painting in the daytime.
In 1924, he met Sally Michel, a young art student, and married in 1926. Her work as an illustrator compelled him to commit himself more to painting. The two began developing a "fully collaborative style" that Robert Hobbs described as "the Avery style" in the 1930s.
In 1932, the family had a daughter, March Avery.
Career
For several years in the late 1920s through the late 1930s, Avery practiced painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Roy Neuberger saw his work and thought he deserved recognition. Determined to get the world to know and respect Avery's work, Neuberger bought over 100 of his paintings, starting with Gaspé Landscape, and lent or donated them to museums all over the world. With Avery's work rotating through high-profile museums, he came to be a highly respected and successful painter.
In the 1930s, he was befriended by Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko among many other artists living in New York City in the 1930s–40s. Avery's use of glowing color and simplified forms was an influence on the younger artists.
The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the first museum to purchase one of Avery's paintings in 1929; that museum also gave him his first solo museum exhibition in 1944. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.
Avery had a serious heart attack in 1949. During his convalescence he concentrated on printmaking. When he resumed painting, his work showed a new subtlety in the handling of paint, and a tendency toward slightly more muted tones.