Sally Michel Avery

Sally Michel Avery
Born
Sally Michel

(1902-07-27)July 27, 1902
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 9, 2003(2003-01-09) (aged 100)
EducationNew York's Arts Students League
Spouse
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(m. 1926; died 1965)​
ChildrenMarch Avery

Sally Michel Avery (/ˈeɪvəri/; née Michel; July 27, 1902 – January 9, 2003) was an artist and illustrator who created modernist paintings of abstracted figures, landscapes, and genre scenes capturing personal moments of everyday life. She was the co-creator of the "Avery style", wife and collaborator of artist Milton Avery, and mother of artist March Avery.[1] Throughout their lives, Michel and Avery shared their studio space together, painting side by side, critiquing each other's work, and developing a shared style which includes the use of abstracted subjects, expressionistic color fields, and harmonious but unusual colors juxtapositions.[2][3] Michel's work is the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (Corcoran Collection), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Israel Museum, among others.[4][5][2]

  1. ^ Hobbs, Robert (1987). "Sally Michel: The Other Avery". Woman's Art Journal. 8 (2): 3–14. doi:10.2307/1358160. ISSN 0270-7993.
  2. ^ a b Smith, Roberta (2003-01-26). "Sally Michel Avery, 100, Illustrator and Artist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
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  4. ^ "Sally Michel Avery. Artist, illustrator, widow of painter". The Gazette. January 27, 2003. p. 30. Retrieved July 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Sally Michel Avery, 100, illustrator". The News and Observer. January 28, 2003. p. 19. Retrieved July 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.