Milton Avery
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Milton Clark Avery was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father
1961 portrait of Avery by his wife, Sally Michel
Girl Writing (1941), The Phillips Collection
Mark Rothko
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Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949
Milton Avery
…rotating through high-profile museums, he came to be a highly respected and successful painter. In the 1930s, he was befriended by Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko among many other artists living in New York City in the 1930s–40s. Avery's use of glowing color and simplified forms was an influence on the younger…
Mark Rothko, Yorktown Heights, c. 1949. Brooklyn Museum, by Consuelo Kanaga.
Baptismal Scene (1945) at the National Gallery of Art in 2023. This was Rothko's first painting to enter a museum collection, acquired by the Whitney Museum in 1946.
Sacrifice (1946) at the National Gallery of Art in 2023
No. 9 (1948), an example of the artist's "multiform" paintings, at the National Gallery of Art in 2023