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Milton Avery: Royal Academy of Arts, London

Past exhibition
15 July - 16 October 2022
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Milton Avery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Worshipped by Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, Milton Avery expressed his vision of the world through harmonious colour and simplified forms. Now, for the first time, see the North American painter’s work this side of the Atlantic.
Milton Avery is considered one of North America’s greatest 20th-century colourists. According to The New York Times, “Only Matisse – to whose art he owed much, of course – produced a greater achievement in this respect”. Avery’s career fell between the movements of the American Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists, leaving him to forge a staunchly independent path.

This is the first comprehensive exhibition of Avery’s work in Europe. It brings together a selection of around 70 paintings from the 1930s – 1960s that are among his most celebrated. These works typically feature scenes of daily life, including portraits of loved ones and serene landscapes from his visits to Maine and Cape Cod.

Marvel in the colour sensibility and balance that runs throughout his work – a style that was to have a major influence on the next generation.

It is a long overdue celebration of an American master who, in Rothko’s words, celebrated the world around him with a poetry that “penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush”.

Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
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Publications
  • Milton Avery

    Milton Avery

    Royal Academy of Arts 2021
    Hardcover 150 pages
    Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
    ISBN: 978-1912520435
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News
  • The Guardian reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist

    The Guardian reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist

    ★★★★★ July 17, 2022
    Milton Avery: American Colourist review – pure, exhilarating uplift ★★★★★ By Laura Cumming The self-effacing late starter and mentor to Rothko, with a singular gift...
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  • The Financial Times reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist

    The Financial Times reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist

    July 15, 2022
    Space is airy and open, the cast list domestic and unheroic, a piercing sun or subdued lamplight in cosy interiors bathes everything in a warm...
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  • The Guardian reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist at the Royal Academy of Arts

    The Guardian reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist at the Royal Academy of Arts

    ★★★★★ July 12, 2022
    'To see this art so closely related to abstract expressionism yet rooted in nature opens a new vista on American art itself. Avery is a...
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  • The Telegraph reviews Milton Avery

    The Telegraph reviews Milton Avery

    ★★★★ July 12, 2022
    Milton Avery: American Colourist, review: The 20th-century colossus you’ve probably never heard of By Cal Revely-Calder 12 July 2022 • 1:08pm An Impressionist at the...
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  • The Art Newspaper features Milton Avery: American Colourist and talks to exhibition curator Edith Devaney

    The Art Newspaper features Milton Avery: American Colourist and talks to exhibition curator Edith Devaney

    July 12, 2022
    “You always feel better after looking at a Milton Avery painting,” says Edith Devaney, the curator of the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe dedicated to...
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  • ‘Rothko’s guru: how Milton Avery transformed modern art’

    ‘Rothko’s guru: how Milton Avery transformed modern art’

    The Telegraph previews Milton Avery: American Colourist at the Royal Academy of Arts July 6, 2022
    The story of how Milton Avery came to shape modern American art is really a love story. It begins in 1925, when, on a painting...
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  • Milton Avery featured in The Observer’s best summer culture guide

    Milton Avery featured in The Observer’s best summer culture guide

    Laura Cumming selects Milton Avery's upcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for The Observer's best summer culture guide. May 30, 2022
    'Gentle, unassuming, with his outstanding gift for colour and his simplified grace, Milton Avery (1885-1965) is a singular master of American art.' – Laura Cumming
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  • The New Yorks Times reviews the work of Milton Avery

    The New Yorks Times reviews the work of Milton Avery

    Roberta Smith takes a look at the work of Milton Avery, which is currently on view in Hartford and New York. May 12, 2022
    'He remained a singular hybrid, who never settled into any niche, but constantly circulated, combining different ratios of cartooning, folk art, European modernism and American...
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