Fancy Bird
1953
Artist, American, 1885 - 1965
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on wove paper
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Credit Line
Gift of the Avery Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
image: 9.3 x 17.5 cm (3 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
sheet: 12.8 x 24.1 cm (5 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1991.233.48
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lunn 1973, no. 46
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1994
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 38.
1995
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, 1995, no. 38.
1996
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Allentown Art Museum, 1996, no. 38.
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, 1996, no. 38.
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, 1996, no. 38.
2004
"Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips", The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2004.
Bibliography
1973
Lunn, Harry H., Jr. Milton Avery: Prints 1933-1955. Washington, D.C.: Graphics International Ltd., 1973, no. 46.
1994
Owens, Carlotta J. Milton Avery: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 38.
2004
Rathbone, Eliza E. Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips. Exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2004: 100, no. 63.
Inscriptions
lower left in block: MA; lower left in graphite: a/p; lower right in graphite: Milton Avery
Wikidata ID
Q75117276