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Birds and Sea [verso]

1955

Milton Avery

Artist, American, 1885 - 1965

Medium

carved woodblock
Credit Line

Gift of the Avery Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

block: 24.45 × 60.96 cm (9 5/8 × 24 in.)
Accession

1991.233.117.b
Catalogue Raisonné

Lunn 1973, no. 60

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Night Nude [recto]

Milton Avery

1953

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

Milton Avery: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana; Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1994-1996.

Bibliography

1973

Lunn, Harry H., Jr. Milton Avery: Prints 1933-1955. Washington, D.C.: Graphics International Ltd., 1973, no. 60.

Wikidata ID

Q63571184

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