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 ...

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 (1885-1965) worked as an assembler, mechanic and latheman before enrolling in art classes in 1905. In the late 1930's he worked as an artist for the WPA Federal Art Project. Avery focused ...

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... Artist Milton Avery created many amazing works before ...

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 ...