Oral history interview with Sally Michael Avery, 1979
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Sally Michael Avery, 1979
Abstract
Childhood, 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
Women artists; Artists; Art, Modern--20th century; Art criticism; Painting; Art galleries, Commercial; Avery, Sally; Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1979
Physical Description
151 pages
Note (Biographical)
Painter; interviewee married Milton Avery
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
Biographical interview
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010