NYAB Event - Milton Avery “A Concentration of Drawings and Prints”

Milton Avery “A Concentration of Drawings and Prints”

Fischbach Gallery

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Milton Avery had a lifelong habit of sketching everything around him. His subject matter became a kind of diary of his activities. Although he enjoyed the company that frequently gathered, he seldom contributed to the conversations and his proclivity for sketching rather than talking on these occasions became well known.

Milton Avery was a remarkable printmaker throughout the mature years of his career. As Frank Getlein astutely observed in his text for the Avery print catalogue raisonne,

“Avery did not resort to prints as a substitute for paintings nor as a translation of his paintings into a different medium. His prints were independent works in themselves, which expressed, naturally, the same insights and the same feelings toward life that the artist put into his paintings. It is remarkable that an artist for whom color meant so much in his paintings was able to express himself so fully in black and white or with the limited range of primary colors he chose as a printmaker. In print after print we respond to the same quiet confidence in the universe and grasp of the universe that we see in the paintings.”

This exhibition was organized by William McWillie Chambers III. Chambers can claim a 41 year close association with the works of Milton Avery. He worked for 23 years at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, the gallery of record for Avery’s works until 1995. McWillie Chambers is an artist, a curator, as well as an art dealer specializing in the works of Avery and other American and European modern masters.

Media

• Drawing
• Prints

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