Milton Avery: The Late Paintings
During his long career, some skeptics called Averys paintings naive and primitive. By his death in 1965, however, a different opinion had taken hold: he had become the source of American Colour Field painting. In a eulogy, Mark Rothko called Avery "a great poet inventor who invented sonorities never seen...before." Clement Greenberg was one of the first to make a case for the sophisticated subtlety of Averys art, and his essay is included in this book, which reproduces 52 paintings from the last 15 years of the artists career. The careful tonal shifts that caught Rothkos eye stand out in full force and Hobbss authoritative essay sets Avery against a backdrop of Matissean modernism and the philosophical poetry of Wallace Stevens.
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