By Robert Hobbs
Published in 2001 by the AFA in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
112 pages, 139 illus. (52 in color), 9 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.
Paper • ISBN 1-885444-20-6 • $25.00 (AFA)

Frequently considered the last of the American figurative painters, Milton Avery is reassessed in this catalogue as a pioneer and forerunner of a new generation of artists. Celebrated for his bold experiments with color and his spare, graceful style, Avery inspired the younger Abstract Expressionists such as Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. This catalogue focuses on fifty-one exemplary paintings from the last two decades of painter Avery’s life. During this period he intensified the contradictions between representation and abstraction in increasingly larger canvases and explored extreme simplification of forms. This is the first publication to survey this important period in Avery’s life.