March Avery american, b. 1932
"I knew I would be a painter. It never occurred to me that I would do anything else."
Born in New York, NY, 1932
Education
BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1954
Lives and works in New York, NY
One-Person Exhibitions
2022
In the Studio, Waddington Custot, London, UK
2020
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Blum & Poe, New York, NY
March Avery ’54, curated by Jenni Crain, Louise McCagg Gallery, Barnard College, New York, NY
2004-2014
Yearly exhibitions at Marin-Price Galleries, Chevy Chase, MD
1997
Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1995
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1994
March Avery: Selected Works: 1974-1994, Thomas J. Walsh Gallery of Art, Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, CT, in conjunction with Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1988
Bell Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Sena East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1987-present
Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1986
Armstrong Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Visual Images Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1982
Recent Paintings, Summit Gallery, New York, NY
Visual Images Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1972
Recent Paintings and Mixed Media, Agra Gallery, Washington D.C
1964-81
Fontana Gallery, Narberth, PA
1963-78
Waverly Gallery, New York, NY
Paul Kessler Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Group Exhibitions
2022
Person(a), Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
2021
Avery | A Family Legacy, Jody Klotz Fine Art, Abilene, TX
March Avery and Elisabeth Kley, Parts and Labor Gallery, Beacon NY
Go Figure, curated by Todd James, Over the Influence, Central, Hong Kong
2019
Summer with the Averys [Milton/Sally/March], curated by Kenneth E. Silver, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
An Artistic Legacy: 1+1+1, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, New York, NY
2018
Women of the Research Studio: Past & Present, Art & History Museums, Maitland, FL
2016
Long Island in the 1960s, Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
2015
The Friends Seminary Auction, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Celebrating Our 75th Anniversary, Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Sylvia Ward & Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Art in Embassies, Vienna, Austria
2007
Just the Figure, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
2006
U.S. Mission to the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), Vienna, Austria
1995
Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA; traveled to Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI; Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY
1991
Twenty-five Women, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
1989
Jazz and Painting, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
The Ladies Drawing Room, Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1986
The Averys: Sally, March, Milton, Work of Art Gallery, Saugerties, NY
1985
The Avery Family: Milton Avery, Sally Michel, March Avery—An Exhibition of Paintings, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT
1980
Avery: Milton—Works on Paper and March—Ceramics, Bell Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1975
The Avery Family, Webb & Parsons, Bedford Village, NY
1974
Avery Family Exhibition, Jarvis Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1972
The Milton Avery Family, Jarvis Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Sally Michel and March Avery, Fontana Gallery, Narberth, PA
Jazz and Painting, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
1971
Paintings by Milton Avery and His Family, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1970
The Avery Family, Jarvis Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1968
The Milton Avery Family, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1966
Milton Avery and Family: An Album of a Contemporary Family of Artists, Gallery Reese Palley, Atlantic City, NJ
1963
Avery Family Group Show, Rye Free Reading Room, Rye, NY
1962
Milton Avery, Sally Michel, March Avery, New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
2019
Summer with the Averys [Milton | Sally | March], Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum, 2019.
2005
Salvesen, Magda and Diane Cousineau. Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Selected Articles and Reviews
2021
Durón, Maximilíano and Angelica Villa. “Sporting a Chic, User-Friendly Design, Fiac’s First Online Edition Sees Robust Sales.” ARTnews, March 5, 2021.
Sapsford, Beatrice. “10 in-Demand Works on Artsy This Week: February 25, 2021.” Artsy.net, February 25, 2021.
Rhinehardt, C. “March Avery at Blum & Poe through January 9th, 2021.” Artobserved.com, January 7, 2021.
2020
“March Avery at Blum & Poe.” Emergentmag.com, December 2020.
"Art Industry News: Paris Hilton Really Wants to Buy Bansky’s Savage Takedown Artwork about Her, but It’s Too Rare + Other Stories." Artnet News, October 16, 2020.
Cascone, Sarah. “Stir Crazy Already? Feast Your Eyes on 20 Works of Art That Celebrate the Joys of Being at Home.” Artnet News, March 13, 2020.
Goldstein, Caroline and Katie White. “Ahead of Mother’s Day, See Some of the Most Tender Depictions of Mothers and Children throughout Art History.” Artnet News, April 23, 2020.
Greenberger, Alex, Claire Selvin, and Tessa Solomon. "ARTnews in Brief: Thomas Dane Gallery Now Represents Amie Siegel—and More from October 16, 2020." ARTnews, October 12, 2020.
Kamp, Justin. "March Avery Joined Blum & Poe’s Artist Roster." Artsy.net, October 16, 2020.
"March Avery Now Represented by Blum & Poe." ArtDaily.com, October 2020.
2019
Baron, Joan Boykoff Baron and Reuben M. Baron. “’The Poetry of Sheer Loveliness’: Milton Avery, Sally Michel and March Avery.” Art Critical (blog), August 31, 2019.
Goldstein, Caroline. “These Poetic Paintings about the Small Moments in Life Show Why March Avery Is Much More Than Just Milton Avery’s Daughter.” Artnet News, July 26, 2019.
Jansen, Charlotte. “The Seven Essential Artists You Need to Know About This Month.” Elephant.art, August 9, 2019.
“March Avery.” Time Out (New York), July 22, 2019.
“March Avery @ Blum & Poe in New York.” Autre.Love, July 3, 2019.
“New York – March Avery at Blum and Poe through September 14th, 2019.” ArtObserved.com,
September 11, 2019.
Pollack, Maika. “Around New York: On Some of the Season’s Best Shows, from Hilma af Klint to
Mary Beth Edelson.” Artnews, May 24, 2019.
Scott, Andrea K. “Goings On About Town: March Avery.” New Yorker, July 26, 2019.
Sutphin, Eric. “March Avery’s Paintings Turn Everyday Scenes into Dynamic Interactions of Colors and Shapes.” Art in America, September 9, 2019.
2018
Reep, Richard. "A Woman's Place." Orlando Weekly, January 17-23, 2018, 15.
Museum and Public Collections
Art & History Museums – Maitland, Maitland, FL
Artists Association of Nantucket, MA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfalk, VA
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Historical Society of Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Stony Brook, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY
Woodstock Historical Society, New York, NY
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