Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
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Property from a Private Collection, New York
Milton Avery (1885-1965)

Summer Sketchers and Autumn Fields: A Double-Sided Work

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Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Summer Sketchers and Autumn Fields: A Double-Sided Work
Summer Sketchers, signed and dated 'Milton Avery/1948' (lower right); Autumn Fields, signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
22 ½ x 31 in. (57.2 x 78.7 cm.)
Summer Sketchers, executed in 1948; Autumn Fields, executed circa 1936.
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above, 1983.
Private collection, Pennsylvania.
[With]DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.
Exhibited
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Summer Exhibition, June 22-August 13, 1999, no. 1.

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Lot Essay

Summer Sketchers likely depicts Pemaquid Point, Maine, where Milton Avery spent the summer in 1948. Earlier, Avery executed Autumn Fields in Vermont circa 1936, where the artist spent six summers with his family from 1935-1943.

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