Girl on a High Chair, 1960

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Medium

oil on canvas board

Dimensions

overall: 60.96 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)

framed: 80.01 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm (31 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. Louis Wiener through the Friends of the Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.132

Artists / Makers

Milton Avery (painter) American, 1885 - 1965

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Inscription

lower right: Milton Avery 1960

Provenance

The artist [1885-1965]; his estate; (Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York); sold 1967 to Dr. Louis Wiener;[1] gift 16 October 1970 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] A letter dated 11 November 1970, from Grace Borgenicht Brandt to Martha Andrews of the Corcoran, provides the information about the artist's estate and the 1967 sale; in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Grace Borgenicht Gallery
Wiener, Louis

Exhibition History

1967: Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, 1967.

Bibliography

1973: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 139-140, repro.