id:			380087
accession number:	2020.170
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.170
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:28.591000

Farm Yard, 1948. Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965). Oil on canvas; unframed: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.170 © The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Farm Yard
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creation date:			1948
creation date earliest:		1948
creation date latest:		1948
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			© The 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: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed and dated, lower left: Milton Avery 1948
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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

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PROVENANCE

	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:
Explaining why he was so quiet, Milton Avery said, "Why talk when you can paint?"

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wall description:
Milton Avery’s passion for bold color and elemental shapes infuses <em>Farm Yard.</em> Throughout his career, the artist sought inspiration from everyday life, which he carefully distilled into abstracted compositions that would capture, as he described, “the purity and essence of the idea expressed in its simplest form.” This painting likely reflects Avery's fondness for folk art; indeed, the fowl with their simplified silhouettes resemble early American weather vanes.
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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).
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	Kramer, Hilton, <em>Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960.</em> (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962).
	page number: 	Mentioned P. 29; Reproduced Plate 65.
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	Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Color, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys’ gift and promised gift.” <em>Cleveland Art </em>62, no. 3, 2022
	page number: 	Mentioned: PP. 5, 6; Reproduced P. 6.
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