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Tangerine Moon and Wine Dark Sea
Artist
Milton Avery
(American, 1885 - 1965)
Date1959
MediumWatercolor and oil pastel on paper
DimensionsOverall: 22 1/8 x 30 1/2 in. (56.2 x 77.5 cm)
Frame: 30 5/8 x 38 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (77.8 x 98.1 x 3.8 cm)
Frame: 30 5/8 x 38 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (77.8 x 98.1 x 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.25
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NameWatercolor
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom left: Milton Avery 1959
Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022, February Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005; Milton Avery: Sun and Moon Painting, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, January 4–February 1, 1992
ProvenanceThe artist; Grace Borgenicht Gallery; Private collection, c. 1961–1991; Babcock Galleries; James R. and Barbara R. PalmerPublished ReferencesAn Intimate Eye (2005), 5 (ill., color).
Driscoll, John, and Arnold Skolnick, The Artist and the American Landscape (Chesterfield, Mass.: Chameleon Books, 1998), 24, 25 (ill., color), 174.
Robinson, 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), 136-137, 171, (ill. 137, 171).