Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Sally Michael Avery, 1979.Biographical NotePainter; interviewee married Milton Avery
Scope and ContentsChildhood, family and education; marriage to Milton Avery; daughter, March; career as painter; reminiscences of Milton Avery: family background, influence of childhood and nature on painting, work for Works Progress Administration, prizes, painting philosophy, techniques and uses of media, work habits, relationship with art critics, associations with galleries; Avery family members' exhibitions and retrospectives, 1928-78; recollections of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Marsden Hartley, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Hirshhorn and others
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984
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