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Open today 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission is always free

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Washington, DC 20565

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Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
Through September 5
Exhibitions & Events
America’s 250th

Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
Open Call

Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Fantail Pigeon

1953

Milton Avery

Associated Names

Milton Avery

Artist, American, 1885 - 1965

The image shows an abstract design with bold, jagged lines forming a large fan-like shape above a rounded form resembling a large bird-like figure. The lines within the fan-like shape create a zigzag pattern, similar to a stylized wing or an opened umbrella. The rounded form below is dark and solid, with two thin, straight lines extending downward that suggest legs. The composition is inspired by nature but presented in a simplified manner.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color woodcut on wove paper
Credit Line

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

image: 25.9 x 24.8 cm (10 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
sheet: 46 x 30.5 cm (18 1/8 x 12 in.)
Accession Number

1991.233.51
Catalogue Raisonné

Lunn 1973, no. 47, iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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. 47, iii/iii.

2004

Rathbone, Eliza E. Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips. Exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2004: 101, no. 64.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: MA; lower left in graphite: artists proof; lower right in graphite: Milton Avery 1953

Wikidata ID

Q75117284

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