Milton Avery

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Milton Avery was an American painter whose work occupies a distinctive position between European modernism and the abstract expressionism emerging around him in mid-century New York. His canvases reduce landscape, figure, and domestic interior to flattened planes of luminous color, often outlined with minimal drawing and held in subtle, close-valued harmonies. Though deeply connected to the New York scene, his palette-driven economy of form set him apart from his contemporaries and proved formative for painters including Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb. His work is held in major American museum collections.

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