Milton Avery: Fifty Paintings / Fifty Years

This publication examines Milton Avery's masterful synthesis of European modernist principles and American vernacular traditions through fifty significant works spanning his career from the 1930s through 1965. It illustrates how the artist's sophisticated manipulation of color and form transcended conventional distinctions between abstraction and representation. Drawing upon extensive archival materials documenting Avery's sustained engagement with diverse landscapes—from the coastlines of Massachusetts to the vistas of Mexico—the publication demonstrates how works like Sunset Sea and White Gull (both 1958) articulate a distinctively American response to modernism's formal imperatives. This volume, which marks Yares Art's half-century stewardship of Avery's legacy, documents the artist's enduring influence on subsequent generations of artists wrestling with the relationship between pictorial autonomy and experiential reference.

Published by Yares Art, New York, 2022

Essay by Eliza E. Rathbone

Designed by Tim Laun and Natalie Wedeking

Softcover, fully illustrated, 89 pages

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