1948
(American, 1885-1965)
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.)
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.170
© The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Explaining why he was so quiet, Milton Avery said, "Why talk when you can paint?"
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.”
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