About the artist

Milton Avery was born in Altmar, New York, in 1885, and died in New York in 1965, aged 79. Organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, a major retrospective of Avery’s work commenced at The Modern, Fort Worth in the autumn of 2021 (7 November 2021–30 January 2022), travelling in 2022 to the Wadsworth Atheneum (5 March–5 June 2022) and the Royal Academy of Arts (15 July–16 October 2022).

Avery’s work is represented in major museums and private collections worldwide including the Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; LACMA; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; MoMA; National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Phillips Collection; SFMOMA; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Tate; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.