Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Milton Avery 1945
the artist, New York (1945–51; sold in February 1951 through Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York to Neuberger); Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger, New York (1951; their gift to MMA)
West Palm Beach, Fla. Norton Gallery and School of Art. "Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Seventh Annual Southeastern Circuit 1945–'46," March 31–April 14, 1946, no. 3 (listed for sale, lent by Rosenberg).
New York. Paul Rosenberg Gallery. 1947.
Berlin. Rathaus Schöneberg. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," September 20–October 5, 1951, no. 16 (as "Badende," 1934).
Berlin. Schloss Charlottenburg. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," October 10–24, 1951, no. 16.
Vienna. Akademie der Bildenden Künst. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," November 3–18, 1951, no. 16.
Munich. Galerie des Amerika Hauses. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," November 24–December 14, 1951, no. 16.
Hempstead, N. Y. Hofstra College. "Metropolitan Museum Masterpieces," June 26–September 1, 1952, brochure no. 44.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Paintings by Milton Avery," December 9, 1952–January 18, 1953, no. 48.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Milton Avery," February 3–March 13, 1960; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to seventeen additional U. S. venues through February 1962, no. 14.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
San Juan. El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. "Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte," April 19–May 31, 1974, no. 18.
American Embassy, Moscow. "American Painting, 1830–1970," opened June 1974, no. 19.
Bridgeport, Conn. Museum of Art, Science & Industry. "Milton Avery: Works and Gifts from the Collection of Roy R. Neuberger / Selections from Connecticut Collectors," October 17–November 29, 1987, unnumbered cat. (fig. 2).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
Greenwich, Conn. Bruce Museum. "Summer with the Averys (Milton / Sally / March)," May 11–September 1, 2019, no. 15.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Milton Avery," November 21, 2021–January 30, 2022, no. 51.
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. "Milton Avery," March 5–June 5, 2022, no. 51.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Milton Avery," July 15–October 16, 2022, no. 51.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1957, p. 2.
Barbara Guest. "Avery and Gatch: Lonely Americans." Art News 59 (March 1960), p. 43.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 172–73, ill.
Daniel M. Mendelowitz. A History of American Art. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 1960]. New York, 1970, p. 404, fig. 546.
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, fig. 297 (color).
"Avery, Milton." Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art. Chicago, [1973], p. 53.
Henry Geldzahler. Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte/ Twentieth-Century Art: U.S.A. from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. San Juan, 1974, pp. 50–51, no. 18, ill.
Milton W. Brown et al. American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography. New York, 1979, p. 450, colorpl. 69.
Evalyn Edwards Milman. Milton Avery: Works and Gifts from the Collection of Roy R. Neuberger / Selections from Connecticut Collectors. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Science & Industry. Bridgeport. Conn., 1987, pp. 7, 14, fig. 2.
H. H. Arnason. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Ed. Peter Kalb. Rev. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2004, p. 406, fig. 18.68 (color).
Donald Miller inMilton Avery's Nudes, 1930–1963. Exh. cat., Harmon-Meek Gallery. Naples, Fla., 2005, unpaginated.
Kenneth E. Silver inSummer with the Averys (Milton / Sally / March). Exh. cat., Bruce Museum. Greenwich, 2019, pp. 15–16, no. 15, ill. p. 61 (color).
Jackie Wullschläger. "American Colourist Provides Summery Delight." Financial Times (July 18, 2022), p. 18.
Sebastian Smee. "A Colorist Beyond Compare." Washington Post (March 20, 2022), p. E8.
Milton Avery (American, Altmar, New York 1885–1965 New York)
1933
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