Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR Although he died nearly 60 year ago, Milton Avery is very much a man for our times ...

American art before Pollock and Warhol is murky territory for most of us, a blurry fug of provincial post-impressionism and dirty social realism over which the shadow of the great depression looms ...

14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm.) This intimate portrait by American expressionist Milton Avery is a shining example of the artist's ability to convey personal emotion through impassioned use of color.

Milton Avery sometimes boasted, not quite tongue-in-cheek, that he could make a tube of paint last longer than any other artist. His signature technique involved thinning the pigment to ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Ink brush drawing, together with a snapshot of Milton, a gift to the present owner from March Avery, Milton's daughter. This rare early drawing is a fully realzed portrait of his daughter. It is rare ...

Although he died in 1965, American artist Milton Avery is a man for our frazzled times. His paintings can calm a jangled day. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg says Avery drew and painted ...

Although he died nearly 60 year ago, Milton Avery is very much a man for our times. He drew and painted things he knew, and helped viewers see them his way — works with colors and shapes. Although he ...