The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Studious Sketcher

Studious Sketcher

1944–45
(American, 1885–1965)
America, 20th century
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
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Avery inscribed this painting at lower left and middle right with two different dates, indicating that he worked on it for several months.

Description

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.
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
    Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976).
    CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969
    Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).
  • {{cite web|title=Studious Sketcher|url=false|author=Milton Avery|year=1944–45|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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