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Jan 13, 2009
Studious Sketcher
Studious Sketcher
1944–45
Milton Avery
(American, 1885–1965)
Oil on canvas
Framed: 107 x 86.7 x 6.4 cm (42 1/8 x 34 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1967.94
© Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Avery inscribed this painting at lower left and middle right with two different dates, indicating that he worked on it for several months.
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Avery developed a distinctive style that uses abstracted shapes of color and witty design to describe the visual world. In Studious Sketcher, a seated artist concentrates her attention on a board propped against the back of a chair, upon which she presumably draws. The chair’s crisscross pattern is visually repeated in the single cross strap near the toe of the woman’s sandal.
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