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Red Rock Falls, 1947 | Milton Avery (1885-1965) oil on canva… | Flickr Milton Avery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Art, Haitian Art, Walker Art Center, Walker Art, Inspiration Painting, Whitney Museum, Minneapolis Minnesota

Milton Avery (1885-1965) oil on canvas at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Written on the MAM website: Milton Avery depicted the visible world in terms of its essences. Avery reduced this Montana vista to a few broad planes of glowing color that, pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle, suggest the most rudimentary of landscape forms. To emphasize two-dimensionality and reduce the illusion of recession, Avery created textures by scratching patterns into selected areas. Soft edges and the dark green…

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Milton Avery, Pink Meadow, 1963 Milton Avery, Wallpaper Project, Mark Rothko, Abstract Art Landscape, Paintings I Love, Mug Design, Henri Matisse, American Artists, Abstract Landscape

Many of Avery’s late paintings are relatively abstract although there is always a basis in nature. In his pared down compositions Avery uses subtle hues of colour to describe space and volume. As Hans Hoffman said ‘Avery was one of the first to understand colour as a creative means’. He...

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