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Milton Avery

Bubbly Sea

1944

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Milton Avery

Bubbly Sea

1944

Physical Qualities Watercolor with scraping over charcoal, Sheet: 581 x 793 mm. (22 7/8 x 31 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Levy, for the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number 1968.2
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1968; Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Levy; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY, 1966
"The Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection," BMA, 1970, unpaginated.
Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 1, unpaged.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 151, ill.

Inscribed: lower left in blue ink: "Milton Avery / 1945"; lower left verso in black ink: ""Bubbly Sea" by Milton Avery w.c 22 x 30 1945"

Artist

Milton Avery

1884–1964

American, 1885-1965
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