id:			87871
accession number:	2020.169
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.169
updated:		2024-03-26 01:55:58.883000

Blue Bay, 1960. Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965). Oil on canvas; unframed: 128.3 x 153 cm (50 1/2 x 60 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.169 © Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Blue Bay
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creation date:			1960
creation date earliest:		1960
creation date latest:		1960
current location:		226B American Modern
creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			© Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 128.3 x 153 cm (50 1/2 x 60 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed and dated, lower left: Milton Avery 1960
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Milton Avery</em>. National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC (December 12, 1969-January 25, 1970); Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (February 17-March 29, 1970); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (April 24-May 31, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1970-02-17T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Brown, Heather Lemonedes, ed. <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>exh. cat.(Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022).
	page number: 	Mentioned PP. 164, 254; Reproduced PP. 14, 165.
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	Grad, Bonnie Lee, and Sally Michel Avery, <em>Milton Avery </em>(Royal Oak, MI: Strathcona, 1981).
	page number: 	Mentioned P. 4.
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	Greenberg, Clement. <em>Milton Avery, </em>exh. cat. (London: Waddington Galleries, 1962).
	page number: 	Reproduced Plate 11.
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	Kaufman, Louis. <em>Milton Avery: Recent Paintings, </em>exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Felix Landau Gallery, 1961).
	page number: 	Reproduced Plate 5.
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	Kramer, Hilton. <em>Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960.</em>  (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962).
	page number: 	Mentioned P. 26; Reproduced Plate 6.
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	<em>Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolours, </em>exh. cat. (London: Waddington Galleries, 1996).
	page number: 	Mentioned P. 24-25; Reproduced P. 33.
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	Mullins, Edwin. "Developments in Style--XV: Milton Avery," <em>London Magazine </em>4 (January 1965).
	page number: 	Reproduced Plate between PP. 36-37.
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	Kramer, Hilton. <em>Milton Avery: Paintings, 1930-1960</em>. New York, NY: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 26, pl. 6
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	Breeskin, Adelyn D. <em>Milton Avery</em>. Washington DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; distributed by the New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: no. 105
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