MARCH AVERY

CHRONOLOGY

1932 Born October 12, New York City, to Milton Avery and Sally Michel Avery.
1954 Graduates, Barnard College, Columbia University. Marries scholar and photographer, Philip G. Cavanaugh.
1969 Birth of son, artist Sean Avery Cavanaugh.
2022 Death of Philip Cavanaugh.
March Avery lives and works in New York City. She is a member of Artists Equity Association, Inc. and the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. Her work is represented by Blum. Reproduction rights for her work are handled by Artists Rights Society (ARS).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1994 March Avery: Selected Works: 1974-1994, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Connecticut, in conjunction with Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, March 27–May 1. Catalogue with essay by Burt Chernow.
2019 March Avery ’54, Louise McCagg Gallery, The Diana Center, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 27–April 14. Jenni Crain, Curator.
March Avery, Blum and Poe, New York, NY June 27–September 14.
2020-21 March Avery, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, California, November 14–January 9.
2022 March Avery: In the Studio, Waddington Custot, London, England, July 6–September 17. Catalogue with essay by Louise Malcolm.
March Avery: The Family, Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan, July 16.
March Avery, Who We Are, Larkin Erdmann, Zürich, Switzerland, September 22–December 22. Catalogue with text by Katy Hessel.
2024 March Avery: Quiet Inside, Blum, Los Angeles, July 13–August 30.

SELECTED TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1968 The Milton Avery Family, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, November 2–December 1.
1971 Paintings by Milton Avery and His Family, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, September 4–26. Catalogue with essay by Frank Getlein.
1985 The Avery Family: Milton Avery, Sally Michel, March Avery—An Exhibition of Paintings, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut.
2019 Summer with the Averys [Milton/Sally/March], Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, May 11–September 1. Kenneth E. Silver, curator. Catalogue with essay by Kenneth E. Silver and interview with March Avery by Stephanie Guyot.
2021–22 March Avery & Elisabeth Kley, Parts & Labor Beacon, Beacon, New York, October 30–January 30. Kenneth E. Silver, curator.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1972 Jazz and Painting, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, March 5–31.
1989 The Ladies Drawing Room, Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, August 19–September 2.
1994–1996 Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia, September 2–October 23, 1994;The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, November 6, 1994–January 15, 1995; Rockford Museum of Art, Illinois, April 14–May 16, 1995; Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, August 13–September 24, 1995; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, November-December 1996. Catalogue with essays by Charlotta Kotik and Judith Swirsky.
2014 Celebrating Our 75th Anniversary, Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, Sylvia Ward & Po Kim Gallery, New York, March 10–April 11.
2018 Women of the Research Studio: Past & Present, Art & History Museums, Maitland, Florida, January 5–February 18.
2019 Self-Portraits, The Project Room, Westbeth, New York, New York. January 5–February 2.
2021 Go Figure, Over the Influence, Central, Hong Kong. Todd James, curator. January 31–March 13.
Mutter, Matter, Mother, Blum and Poe, April 22–May 28. Naz Cuguolu, curator. Virtual, online exhibition.
2023 In Care of the Historical Society of Woodstock: Selected Survey of Woodstock Art Colony Works on Paper. Bruce Weber with Maria Yeye, curators. Historical Society of Woodstock, Woodstock, New York, June 10–July 23.
”Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures, Blum, Los Angeles. Alison M. Gingeras, curator. September 9–October 21.
2024 A Particular Kind of Heaven, Karma, Thomaston, Maine, July 21–September1.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joan Boykoff Baron and Reuben M. Baron. “’The Poetry of Sheer Loveliness’: Milton Avery, Sally Michel and March Avery.” Art Critical (August 31, 2019).
Sarah Cascone. “Spotlight: Decades of March Avery’s Bright, Autobiographical Canvases Go On View in London in Her First Show Abroad,” Artnet news (August 12, 2022).
Johanna Fateman, Lynne Tillman and John Yau, March Avery: A Life in Color, (London: Black Dog Press, 2024)
Caroline Goldstein. “On View: March Avery at Blum & Poe, New York,” Artnet news online (July 26, 2019).
Stephanie Guyet. “I thought everybody was an artist: An interview with March Avery at her studio, New York, NY, October 19 and December 13, 2018,” in Summer with the Averys [Milton/Sally/March] (exhibition catalogue) Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (2019).
Justin Kamp. "March Avery Joined Blum & Poe’s Artist Roster," Artsy.net (October 16, 2020. 
Maika Pollack. “Around New York: On Some of the Season’s Best Shows,” Artnews online (May 24, 2019).
Richard Reep. “A Woman’s Place,” Orlando Weekly (January 17–23, 2018).
C. Rhinehardt. “Art Observed: March Avery at Blum & Poe through January 9th, 2021.” Artobserved.com (January 7, 2021). Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau, editors. “March Avery: Daughter of Milton and Sally Avery,” in Artists’ Estates: Reputations in Trust (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
Andrea K. Scott. “Goings on About Town: At the Galleries: March Avery,” The New Yorker (July 29, 2019).
Emily Steer, “March Avery: Depictions of an Endless Summer,” TOAST Magazine (May 20, 2024).
Eric Sutphin. “March Avery’s Paintings Turn Everyday Scenes into Dynamic Interactions of Colors and Shapes.” Art in America (September 9, 2019).
Balasz Takac. “March Avery’s Exhibition at Blum & Poe Captures Daily Scenes Shared with Close Friends or Family,” Widewalls (July 31, 2022).
Waqas Wajahat “Understanding Milton Avery: A Conversation with his daughter March Avery Cavanaugh and his grandson Sean Cavanaugh,” in Milton Avery (exhibition catalogue) Royal Academy of Arts, London (2021).

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art & History Museums—Maitland, Florida
Artists Association of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York
William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women Artists,
Bryn Mawr College Art & Archeology Collections, Pennsylvania
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Historical Society of Woodstock, New York
The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Stony Brook, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, New York