Blue Landscape

Artist Milton Avery American, 1885–1965

Date1946

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions34 1/4 x 53 1/8 in. (87 x 134.9 cm)
Frame: 35 1/2 x 54 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (90.2 x 138.1 x 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Roy R. Neuberger

Object numberG.57.1.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New York 1946; collection of the artist; [Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York]; Roy R. Neuberger, New York, 1951; given to NCMA, 1957.

Published ReferencesBen F. Williams. "Acquisitions of Twentieth Century Paintings," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Spring 1957), briefly discussed 22, illus. (b-w) fig. 12.

American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 4, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 270.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 267.

Lee Smith, "Daisy's Hill," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 100-101, illus. (color) 100. Reprinted in Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books (September 1997), 26, illus. (color).

Melissa Clement, "Nature and her many faces on display in landscape show," (exhibition review), Fayetteville Observer-Times (December 4, 1998), mentioned 19.
Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, CA, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Third Annual Exhibition," 1948, no.

Fayetteville, NC, Cumberland County Public Library, "NCMA Outreach Exhibition," May 1964.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1990 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-23, 1967, cat. no. 4, illus. (b-w).

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World," April 25-June 28, 1998; Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, September 12-November 8, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, November 22, 1998-January 17, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, March 10-April 30, 1999, brochure, illus. (Outreach exhibition).
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