Milton Avery

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Milton Avery was a 20th-century American modern painter known for his simplified forms, bold color harmonies, and influential role bridging American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism.

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Label Occurrences
Milton Avery canonical 2
Milton Clark Avery 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
modern artist
painter
activeYearsEnd 1960s
activeYearsStart 1910s
artisticStyle economy of detail
flattened forms
large areas of unmodulated color
child March Avery
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1885-03-07
dateOfDeath 1965-01-03
familyName Avery
fieldOfWork painting
printmaking
fullName Milton Avery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Milton Clark Avery
genre figure painting
landscape painting
still life painting
givenName Milton
hasCollectionIn Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art
surface form: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Whitney Museum of American Art
influenced Adolph Gottlieb
Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko
influencedBy American Impressionism
European modernism
Henri Matisse
movement Abstract art
Modernism
surface form: American modernism

Color field precursor
Modernism
notableFor bold color harmonies
bridging American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism
simplified forms
notableWork Birds Over Sea
Boathouse by the Sea
March and Sally Outdoors
Seaside
The White Pitcher
Two Figures at Desk
occupation painter
printmaker
placeOfBirth Altmar, New York, United States
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
residence Hartford, Connecticut, United States
New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
sexOrGender male
spouse Sally Michel Avery

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The Phillips Collection hasWorkBy Milton Avery
Milton Avery fullName Milton Avery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Milton Clark Avery
Milton hasNotableBearer Milton Avery