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The Financial Times reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist

July 18, 2022 Space is airy and open, the cast list domestic and unheroic, a piercing sun or subdued lamplight in cosy interiors... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Laura Freeman reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist for The Times

★★★★★ July 12, 2022 'He was America’s first great modern colourist with a bracing, racing-silk palette.' “There have been others in our generation... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

‘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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

The Washington Post reviews Milton Avery

March 16, 2022 Milton Avery was the 20th century’s great ‘painter’s painter’ America’s most original colorist, the subject of new retrospective at the... Read more

The WSJ reviews Milton Avery

December 9, 2021 ‘Milton Avery’ Review: A Luminary Outside the Mainstream The painter’s first retrospective since 1982 reveals the genius in his formal... Read more