An Uneasy Brush With Modernism; Uncertainty Marks Milton Avery's Art, But of Its Impact There's Little Doubt From: The Washington Post | Date: February 15, 2004| Author: Blake Gopnik | Copyright 2004 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

At the media preview of the Milton Avery exhibition that opened yesterday at the Phillips Collection, there was a fascinating moment early in the show. A sketchbook from the 1930s had been installed in a glass vitrine. On one page, it showed a fairly standard life- drawing of a female nude. On the facing page, however, there was another nude that was a real eye-opener. This time, the naked woman had been shown in the coarsest outline drawing, full of radically willful distortions of space an...

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