Past Exhibition

Milton Avery

Milton Avery, Rothko with Pipe, 1936, drypoint in brown-black on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1974.123.1

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    East Building, Ground Floor
Milton Avery, Rothko with Pipe, 1936, drypoint in brown-black on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1974.123.1

Overview: 57 prints, 2 watercolors, and 8 sketchbooks were selected from the Milton Avery Print Archive at the National Gallery, with loans from private collectors. The exhibition celebrated the Avery family's gift of the archive in 1991 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.

Organization: Curator was Carlotta J. Owens, assistant curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art.

Attendance: 82,934

Catalog: Milton Avery: Works on Paper, by Carlotta J. Owens. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1994.