Avery Sketchbook (Jamaica, Vermont)

1943

Milton Avery

Artist, American, 1885 - 1965

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 77 drawings in various media on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Sally Michel Avery

  • Dimensions

    Overall (closed): 20 x 13.5 cm (7 7/8 x 5 5/16 in.)
    overall (opened): 20 x 26 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.104.2.1-77

Associated Artworks

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Vermont Landscape

Milton Avery

1943

View of Ball Mountain

Milton Avery

1943

View of Distant Mountains

Milton Avery

1943

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

artist; by descent to Sally Michel Avery, his wife, New York; gift to NGA, 2002

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Milton Avery: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995.

1995

  • Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, 1995.

1996

  • Milton Avery: Works on Paper, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, 1996.

  • Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, 1996.

  • Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Allentown Art Museum, 1996.

2004

  • "Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips", The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2004.

2016

  • Milton Avery's Vermont, The Bennington Museum, Vermont, 2016.

Bibliography

2004

  • Rathbone, Eliza E. Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips. Exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2004: 21, 77.

2016

  • Franklin, Jamie and Karen Wilkin. Milton Avery's Vermont. Exh. cat., Bennington Museum, VT, 2016: 29-30, 48, 50, fig. 5, pl. 32, 34.

Inscriptions

blue ball-point pen on front cover: Milton Avery / Jamaica, VT; by unknown hand in black ball-point pen on front cover: 1943

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