Intersecting lives; Milton Avery, collectors built lasting symbiosis.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)

From: The Washington Times | Date: February 28, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Phillips Collection exhibit "Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips" highlights much of Mr. Avery's talent - modulated and closely hued colors, tilting of perspectives for unnerving tensions, reduction of compositional elements to essentials - and shows the collectors' uncanny eye for this pioneering modernist painter.

Mr. Phillips, founder of the Phillips Collecti...

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