Oral history interview with Sally Avery
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 32 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Avery, Sally
label: Interviewer
content: Wolf, Tom
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Opportunity Club (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
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content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
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content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
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content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Abstract expressionism
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
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content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Avery, Sally
label: Interviewer
content: Wolf, Tom
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) was a painter and widow of Milton Avery. Sally Avery lived in New York and Long Island.
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content: 66 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 February 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.avery82
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Sally Avery conducted 1982 February 19, by Tom Wolf, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
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content: Avery discusses the friendship between Mark Rothko and the Averys, noting especially Rothko's admiration for Milton Avery's work. She describes Avery's influence on Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, recalling several summers spent together and their close association in New York. She mentions Rothko's and Avery's involvement with the Opportunity Gallery, and the activities of the Club and the Ten. Avery speaks of Rothko's "myth paintings" and the origination of the idea with Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb. The second half of the interview focuses on Milton Avery and his manner of working. She mentions an Avery portrait of Marsden Hartley and remembers his visits with them.