Art; Milton Avery's Fine Lines

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 22, 1994| Author: Jo Ann Lewis | Copyright information

Drawing was a pictorial wellspring for the great American landscape painter Milton Avery (1885-1965). During the summer he stored up images, sketching his family and friends on sun-struck beaches from Gloucester to Maine, or on quiet hillsides in Vermont. In winter, he painted in his New York studio, where he distilled the sweeping curves of the Atlantic shoreline into flat patterns and chromatic essences.

These drawings, of course, were never intended as an end product. Rather, Av...

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