: Harmoniously and distinctively colorful works by Milton Avery are
on view at two very different sites this spring, tracing the
artist's career and illustrating his indisputable importance on
the American art scene. While both exhibits give well-deserved
play to the highly talented Avery and his place in Twentieth
Century American painting, they underscore the vital importance
of the collector to the artist and to the institutions that hold
his work.
"Milton Avery: Paintings from the Collection of the Neuberger
Museum of Art" is on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at
the State University of New York at New Paltz, and "Discovering
Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan
Phillips" is at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
Investment banker Roy R. Neuberger trained early for the business
world but from his teens he had an equally strong interest in art
and began formulating his collection as a young man. He collected
the works of a number of artists, but his name was most closely
associated with that of Avery, who he considered to be a rising
star. But for Neuberger, the unassuming Avery might never have
achieved the fame he did.
