Autumn Sea

Milton Avery, American, 1885 - 1965

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1948

Transparent and opaque watercolor over charcoal on heavy wove paper

Sheet: 22 15/16 × 30 7/8 in. (58.2 × 78.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Stephen F. Mandel, Class of 1952

W.994.32

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in paint, lower left: Milton Avery / 1948; inscribed, in ballpoint pen, on reverse: "Autumn Sea" / by / Milton Avery / 22 x 30 / w.c. / 1948; inscribed, on reverse, in crayon: 3675F

Course History

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Fall 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.

Milton Avery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., December 12, 1969-January 25, 1970; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, February 17-March 29, 1970; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, April 24-May 31, 1970.

Publication History

Christie's New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, September 22, 1994, lot 130 (bought in).

Milton Avery, Washington: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, no. 43, illus., 1969.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 225.

Provenance

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York, New York; sold to Richard Henry Mandel (1905-1976), Bedford Hills, New York; given to his son, Stephen Frank Mandel (1931-2009), Darien, Connecticut, about 1976; given to present collection, 1994.

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