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Farm Yard

1948

Milton Avery

(American, 1885–1965)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.170
Copyright
© The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Explaining why he was so quiet, Milton Avery said, "Why talk when you can paint?"

Description

Milton Avery’s passion for bold color and elemental shapes infuses Farm Yard. Throughout his career, the artist sought inspiration from everyday life, which he carefully distilled into abstracted compositions that would capture, as he described, “the purity and essence of the idea expressed in its simplest form.” This painting likely reflects Avery's fondness for folk art; indeed, the fowl with their simplified silhouettes resemble early American weather vanes.

Farm Yard

1948

Milton Avery

(American, 1885–1965)
America

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