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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1948 creation date earliest: 1948 creation date latest: 1948 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: © The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed and dated, lower left: Milton Avery 1948 translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Explaining why he was so quiet, Milton Avery said, "Why talk when you can paint?" digital description: wall description: Milton Avery’s passion for bold color and elemental shapes infuses Farm Yard. 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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: url: Kramer, Hilton, Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960. (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962). page number: Mentioned P. 29; Reproduced Plate 65. url: Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Color, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys’ gift and promised gift.” Cleveland Art 62, no. 3, 2022 page number: Mentioned: PP. 5, 6; Reproduced P. 6. url: --- IMAGES