Night Harbor
Artist
Milton Avery
(American, 1885-1965)
Date1957
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 44 x 57 in. (111.8 x 144.8 cm)
ClassificationsModern art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.1085
Terms
- Abstract
- Provincetown, MA
- Blue
- Purple
- Yellow
- Abstract
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On viewLabel TextMilton Avery American, 1885–1965 Night Harbor, 1957 Oil on canvas Night Harbor represents the ocean as seen from Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Milton Avery spent the summer of 1957 with his friend and fellow painter Mark Rothko. Throughout his career, Avery’s work teetered on the edge of abstraction, yet maintained recognizable subject matter. Painted toward the end of his life, this simply composed work is nearly all abstraction with only a thin yellow line identifying a rising or setting sun, while the frenzied brushstrokes suggest the atmospheric effects in the summertime sky. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1085
