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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.85
People
Milton Avery, American (Altmar, NY 1885 - 1965 New York, NY)
Title
Still Life with Woman
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1946
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228094

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 100 × 74.9 cm (39 3/8 × 29 1/2 in.)
framed: 121 × 95.9 × 7 cm (47 5/8 × 37 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On table legs: Milton Avery, Signed Date: 1946

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harold Gershinowitz, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Harold Gershinowitz
Copyright
© Milton Avery / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.85
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Some Recent Acquisitions", Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1966-1967, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1968), reproduced in b/w p. 93
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 154, ill.
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color fig. 94, p. 98
  • Gerard Vincent, "Communism as a Way of Life", A History of Private Life, Belknap Press (Cambridge, MA, 1987 - 1991), vol. V, reproduced in color facing p. 329

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

Verification Level

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