Space is airy and open, the cast list domestic and unheroic, a piercing sun or subdued lamplight in cosy interiors bathes everything in a warm atmosphere, and although without grandeur or extravagance, each living thing is imbued with a surge of optimism and individuality at the Royal Academy’s delightful summery new exhibition Milton Avery:
American Colourist. – Jackie Wullschläger
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Milton Avery, Self-Portrait, 1941
Oil on canvas. 137.2 x 86.4 cm
Collection Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Gift from the Estate of Roy R. Neuberger
© 2021 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2021
Photo: Jim Frank
July 18 2022