id: 380087 accession number: 2020.170 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.170 updated: 2022-06-29 09:01:18.441000 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 --- 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: 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.” wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES