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accession number: 2020.169
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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
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Milton Avery. 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).
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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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fun fact:
Milton Avery worked several factory jobs before launching his career as an artist.
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Featuring three boats, a land mass, and the surrounding ocean and sky, Blue Bay was inspired by the artist's summer trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts. At this late stage in his career, Avery was creating larger scaled and more abstracted compositions that would constitute his final body of work. In spite of the high degree of abstraction and deliberate lack of perspective in this painting, the artist provides just enough information to convince viewers that we are glimpsing a coastal summer view.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Brown, Heather Lemonedes, ed. The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 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, Milton Avery (Royal Oak, MI: Strathcona, 1981).
page number: Mentioned P. 4.
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Greenberg, Clement. Milton Avery, exh. cat. (London: Waddington Galleries, 1962).
page number: Reproduced Plate 11.
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Kaufman, Louis. Milton Avery: Recent Paintings, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Felix Landau Gallery, 1961).
page number: Reproduced Plate 5.
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Kramer, Hilton. Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960. (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962).
page number: Mentioned P. 26; Reproduced Plate 6.
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Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolours, 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," London Magazine 4 (January 1965).
page number: Reproduced Plate between PP. 36-37.
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Kramer, Hilton. Milton Avery: Paintings, 1930-1960. New York, NY: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962.
page number: Reproduced: p. 26, pl. 6
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Breeskin, Adelyn D. Milton Avery. 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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