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Milton Avery

Brooding Woman

1940

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Milton Avery

Brooding Woman

1940

Physical Qualities Graphite on paper, Sheet: 279 x 216 mm. (11 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Paul Goodman, Baltimore
Object Number 1998.552
Label on back of frame: M. Knoedler and Co. Inc/ 21 East 70th Street/New York, NY 10021/Artist: Milton Avery/Title: Booding Woman/Size: 11 x 8 1/2'/Medium: Pencil/Photo Pl. No./CA 9694
Paul Goodman, Baltimore; M. Knoedler & Co, NY.
Owens, Carlotta. Milton Avery: Works on Paper,Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art, c1994. Kramer, Lina Konheim. Milton Avery in Black and White: Drawings 1929-59,Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Museum, c1990.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Milton Avery"; by later hand?, lower center verso in graphite: "Brooding Woman by Milton Avery, 11 x 8 1/2, pencil, 1941, CA 9694"

Artist

Milton Avery

1884–1964

American, 1885-1965
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