“Perhaps the most powerful Avery works are those that reveal his deep response to nature, for he was one of the finest American landscape painters of this century. His landscapes convey the grandeur of nature—but a nature whose character is arcadian rather than alien and threatening. One feels looking at an Avery landscape or seascape that the highest human experience is being alone and at peace with the land and the sea”
(B. Haskell, Milton Avery, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1982, p. 14).
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