Milton Avery, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982, First Edition, SC, VG.

Haskell, Barbara, et al. New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1982. English, First Edition, Very Good, SC, 4to, 11" x 9 1/2", 224 pp. ISBN: 0064301214

White pictorial softcover, featuring Milton Avery's 1947 artwork "Red Rock Falls" to front, black-and-white photograph of Milton Avery to back, black lettering to front, back, and interior flaps, minor sunning to edges, panels, and spine, some wear to edges, slight bump to head, crease to front top corner, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [7] 224 [1] pp., replete with full-color and black-and-white images, Foreword by Tom Armstrong, Acknowledgements and essay "Milton Avery" by Barbara Haskell, Commemorative Essay by Mark Rothko from 1965, Notes, Chronology, Bibliography & Exhibition History, Index, and Checklist of the Exhibition. Published in conjunction with the traveling retrospective exhibition "Milton Avery" starting at the Whitney Museum of American Art from September 16 to December 5, 1982. From Mark Rothko's essay: "There have been several others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them, but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush."