Milton Avery

by Robert Carleton Hobbs

Book Overview

An essential overview of the beloved master colorist and pioneer of American modernism

Born in 1885 to a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery left school at 16 to work in a factory. Intending to study lettering but soon transferring to painting, he attended evening school for 15 years before moving to New York in the 1920s to pursue a career as a painter.
Although he never identified with a particular movement,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912520435
• ISBN13: 9781912520435
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 10.9"