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(American, 1885–1965)

Night Nude

1953
Color woodcut with blue ink applied over black ink on cream Japanese paper
Image: 9 3/4 x 24 in. (24.8 x 61.0 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 x 28 1/8 in. (30.6 x 71.4 cm)
Mat: 17 5/8 x 32 in. (44.8 x 81.3 cm)
Credit LineTerra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number1996.57
Copyright© The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
SignedIn graphite, lower right margin: Milton Avery 1953
ProvenanceThe artist
Margo Pollins Schab, Inc., New York, New York
Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, Chicago, Illinois, 1996
Exhibition History
Figures and Forms: Selections from the Terra Foundation for the Arts, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois (organizer). Venue: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, May 9–July 9, 2000.

L'Amérique et les Modernes, 1900–1950 (American Moderns, 1900–1950), Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France (organizer). Venue: Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France, July 25–October 31, 2000. [exh. cat.]

On Process: The American Print, Technique Examined, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois (organizer). Venue: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, January 13–March 2, 2001.

Terra Collection-in-Residence, Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 15, 2022–September 30, 2026.

 
Published References
Milton Avery: Prints and Drawings, 1930–1964. Brooklyn, New York: Shorewood Publishers, New York, 1966. No. 82, p. 23.

Lunn, Harry H. Milton Avery Prints 1933–1965. Washington, D.C.: International Graphics, 1973. No. 48.

Cartwright, Derrick R. and Paul J. Karlstrom. American Moderns, 1900–1950. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000. Text p. 18; fig. 3, p. 18 (black & white). [specific reference to Terra print]

Cartwright, Derrick R. and Paul J. Karlstrom. L'Amérique et les modernes, 1900–1950. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000. Text p. 18; fig. 3, p. 18 (black & white). [specific reference to Terra print]
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1938
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