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Beach Birds
Artist
Milton Avery
(American, 1885 - 1965)
Date1950
MediumWatercolor and gouache on paper
DimensionsOverall Inches: 22-1/8 x 30-3/4 inches, sight: 21-1/4 x 29-1/4 inches, frame: 28-1/2 x 26-1/4 x 1 inches; Overall Centimeters: 56.2 x 78.1 cm, sight: 54.74.4 cm, frame: 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 viewCentury
- Twentieth
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, 2005 ProvenanceThe artist
Terry Dintenfass, New York, 1958
Susan Subtle Dintenfass, 1958–88
Acquired in 1988 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New YorkPublished ReferencesRobinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 136, 171, (ill. 136, 171).