Beach Birds

Artist Milton Avery (American, 1885 - 1965)

Date1950

MediumWatercolor and gouache on paper

DimensionsOverall: 22-1/8 x 30-3/4 inches (56.2 x 78.1 cm), sight: 21-1/4 x 29-1/4 inches (54 x 74.4 cm), frame: 28-1/2 x 26-1/4 x 1 inches (72.4 x 92.2 x 2.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.24

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameWatercolor

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom left: Milton Avery 1950

Inscribedverso: SAND BIRDS / Milton Avery / 1950 / Beach Birds

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005ProvenanceThe artist Terry Dintenfass, New York, 1958 Susan Subtle Dintenfass, 1958–88 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1988 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 136 (fig. 11), 171, (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 12 (no. 4).