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1885 |
Born, March 7, Altmar, New York |
| 1898 | Moves to Wilson Station near East Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1905 - 11 | Enrolls at the Connecticut League of Art Students, Hartford; Studies life-drawing and remains at the league until 1918 |
| 1915 | Wadsworth Atheneum, Annex Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, Fifth Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture |
| 1918 |
Transfers to the School of the Art Society of Hartford, Connecticut, awarded top honors in portrait and life-drawing |
| 1920 | Visits Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| 1924 |
Membership, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Meets Sally Michel in Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| 1925 | Moves to New York City |
| 1926 |
Marries Sally Michel |
| 1927 | 11th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists’, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York |
| 1928 |
Opportunity Gallery, New York, group show includes Mark Rothko. Start of long friendship with Rothko |
| 1929 |
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Atheneum Prize Meets Adolph Gottlieb through Rothko |
| 1930 |
Art Institute of Chicago, 11th Annual Exhibition, Logan Prize |
| 1932 |
Daughter, March is born |
| 1935 | Valentine Gallery, New York |
| 1936 - 37 |
Summers in Jamaica and Rawsonville, Vermont |
| 1938 | Summers in Gasp Peninsula, Quebec, Canada |
| 1941 |
Drives cross-country to California with stops in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks Stays in Laguna Beach, California |
| 1943 |
Leaves Valentine Gallery, joins Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York Roy Neuberger purchases 35 paintings from Valentine Gallery |
| 1944 | The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. |
| 1945 | Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York and Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York |
| 1946 | Travels to Mexico |
| 1947 | Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, My Daughter March |
| 1948 |
Baltimore Museum of Art, National Watercolor Exhibition, 1st Prize Summers in Pemaquid Point, Maine |
| 1949 | Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York |
| 1950 | Roy Neuberger purchases fifty paintings from Paul Rosenberg |
| 1951 | Grace Borgenicht, New York |
| 1952 |
Travels to London, Paris, and the French Riviera Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland |
| 1953, 54 | Residency at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire |
| 1955, 56 | Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York and Mac Dowell Colony |
| 1957 | Summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts with Gottlieb & Rothko |
| 1958 | HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts |
| 1959, 60 | Summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts with Gottlieb & Rothko |
| 1960 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1962 | Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960, Hilton Kramer, Published by Thomas Yoseloff, New York |
| 1964 | Paints last painting in February |
| 1965 | Dies, January 3, New York, buried at the Artists' Cemetery, Woodstock, New York |
| 1966 |
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Provincetown Art Association, Massachusetts, Milton Avery Memorial Exhibition |
| 1968 | Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco, California, Milton Avery 1893-1965 |
| 1969 - 70 |
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. Brooklyn Museum, New York Milton Avery: A Retrospective, curated by Adelyn Breeskin |
| 1976 | University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Milton Avery: Drawings and Paintings, curated by Harvey S. Shipley Miller |
| 1978 |
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, Milton Avery and His Friends |
| 1981 |
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Milton Avery: Early and Late, curated by Marla Price Milton Avery, Bonnie Lee Grad, Published by Royal Oak, Michigan |
| 1982 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Milton Avery, curated by Barbara Haskell |
| 1988 |
Boise Art Museum, Idaho, Milton Avery: Progressive Images, curated by Marla Price |
| 1990 |
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Milton Avery: Works from the 1950's, curated by Marla Price Milton Avery, Robert Hobbs, Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York |
| 1994 |
Katonah Museum of Art, New York, Against the Stream: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, Milton Avery: Paintings from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art |
| 1999 - 2000 |
Syracuse University, Lubin House, New York City Syracuse University, Joe & Emily Lowe Art Gallery, New York Milton Avery Revisited: Works from the Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection Knoedler & Company, New York Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona & Santa Fe, New Mexico, Milton Avery: Major Paintings, 1929-1962 |
| 2001 |
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida UCLA Hammer Museum, California Milton Avery: The Late Paintings, curated by Robert Hobbs. Organized by American Federation of Arts, New York Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom, Milton Avery Late Work: Landscapes & Seascapes 1951 - 1963 |
| 2003 |
DC Moore Gallery, New York |
| 2004 |
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips, curated by Eliza Rathbone
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