Milton Clark Avery, youngest of four children, born March 7 in Sand Bank (later re-named Altmar) New York, to Russell N. and Esther March Avery.
1898
Family moves to Wilson Station, Connecticut (near East Hartford).
1901
Goes to work for Hartford Machine and Screw Company as an aligner and then an assembler.
1904
Works for Underwood Manufacturing Company as an assembler, a latheman and then a mechanic.
1905 - 1911
Sometime during this period, Avery enrolls at the Connecticut League of Art Students, Hartford, first in a lettering class and subsequently in a life–drawing class. Remains enrolled at the League until 1918. In 1911, he begins to list his occupation as an artist.
1915
First public exhibition of his work in the Fifth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Annex Gallery, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut.
1917
Begins work at the Travelers Life Insurance Companies in the Liability Claim Department. Works 6pm to midnight in order to paint during the daytime.
1918
Transfers to the School of the Art Society of Hartford.
1919
Wins top honors at the School of the Art Society of Hartford.
1920
First visit to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he will spend the next several summers.
1923
Begins working at United States Tire and Rubber Company.Summer. Gloucester.
1924
Employed as a construction worker in East Hartford.Becomes member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.Summer. Gloucester. Meets Sally Michel.
1925
Moves to New York City with artist friend Wallace Putnam in order to be near Sally Michel.
1926
Summer. Gloucester.Marries Sally, May 1. The couple lives in New York City.Begins attending the Art Students League sketch class several evenings a week, which he continues through 1938.Sally works as a freelance illustrator in order to allow Avery to paint full time.
1927
Included in his first exhibition in New York, the Independents exhibition.
1928
Avery's work selected by Bernard Karfiol for an exhibition of eight artists at the Opportunity Gallery. Also included is work by Mark Rothko. Beginning of friendship between Avery and Rothko.First one–man exhibition in New York at the Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, Milton Avery: Watercolors.
1929
First painting to enter a museum: Duncan Phillips purchases Winter Riders, 1929 for the Phillips Memorial Gallery (later the Phillips Collection), Washington D.C.Meets Adolph Gottlieb through Mark Rothko.
1930
Summer. Collinsville, Connecticut.
1931
Summer. Gloucester.
1932
Summer. Gloucester with Gottlieb, Rothko and Barnett Newman at Gloucester. Birth of daughter, March on October 12.
1933
Summer Gloucester.
1934
Summer. Gloucester. The Rothkos join the Averys.
1935
Summer. Jamaica, Vermont. Joins the Valentine Gallery. First one–man exhibition there in March. Dr. Albert Barnes purchases The Nursemaid, 1934.
1936
Summer. Jamaica, Vermont.
1937
Summer. Rawsonville, Vermont. The Gottliebs and Rothkos come for visits.
1938
Works in the Easel Division of the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project.Summer. Rivière-au-Renard, Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada.Avery and friends hire a model several times a week and sketch at each others homes.
1939
Summer. Rawsonville, Vermont.
1940
Summer. Rawsonville, Vermont. Sally gets a job as illustrator for the “Child and Parent” column of The New York Times.
1941
Summer. Drives cross-country to California, where he spends one month in Laguna Beach. Stops in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.
1942
Summer. Stays in New York.
1943
Summer. Gloucester. The Gottliebs and Rothkos are daily guests. Leaves Valentine Gallery and joins Paul Rosenberg & Co. His first exhibition there in June. The Valentine Gallery sells Roy Neuberger its inventory of 35 paintings by Avery.
1944
Summer. Gloucester.Avery's first one–man museum exhibition at the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1945
Summer. Gloucester.Concurrent exhibitions with the Rosenberg and Durand–Ruel Galleries. Avery continues to work with both galleries for the next five years.
1946
Summer. Travels to Mexico for three months; stays six weeks in San Miguel de Allende.
1947
Summer. Canada, near Toronto, Canadian Northwest, and Oregon. Avery's first retrospective exhibition, My Daughter, March is held at Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York.
1948
Summer: Pemaquid Point, Maine.
1949
Suffers a major heart attack. Last exhibition with Paul Rosenberg & Co.Summer. Recuperates at a friend’s house in Millbrook, New York.Winter. Spent recuperating at the Research Art Colony for writers and painters, Maitland, Florida (near Orlando).
1950
Paul Rosenberg sells his inventory of 50 paintings by Avery to Roy Neuberger. Spends his first summer in Woodstock, New York.
1951
Summer. Woodstock, New York.Joins the newly opened Grace Borgenicht Gallery. First exhibition there in October.Milton Avery: A Painter's World, film is released by Walter Lewison Associates.
1952
Visits Europe for the first time — London, Paris and the French Riviera. Retrospective exhibition opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
1953
Spends his first summer at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire (he will summer there in 1954 and 1956 as well).
1954
March Avery graduates from college and marries Philip Cavanaugh.
1955
Summers at Yaddo art colony near Saratoga Springs, New York.
1956
Summers at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1957
Summer. Provincetown.His first large–format canvases.Major article on Avery by Clement Greenberg in Arts magazine.
1958
Summer. Provincetown.
1959
Suffers from deteriorating health. Spends the winter in Key West to recuperate.Summer. Provincetown
1960
February. Retrospective exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Summer. Provincetown.October. Suffers a second heart attack.
1962
Hilton Kramer writes the first monograph on Avery, Milton Avery: Paintings, 1930–1960.Summer spent in Lake Hill, New York.
1964
February. Avery executes his last painting.March 6. Enters Montefiore Hospital; remains there, at first in intensive care.
1965
Dies January 3. January 7. Memorial service held at the Society for Ethical Culture, New York. Buried in Artists Cemetery, Woodstock, New York.
Exhibitions
2007
A Culture in the Making, 29th Anniversary Exhibit: New york and San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, January 11–March 3. Catalogue with essay by Jed Perl.
2007
Landscape: Form and Thought, Waqas Wajahat in association with Ingrao Gallery, New York, May 3–July 14. Catalogue with text by Christopher Riopelle.
2007
Magical Means: Milton Avery and Watercolor, Knoedler & Company, New York, May 3–August 10. Catalogue with essay by Ruth Fine. (solo)
2006
"Milton Avery: Works on Paper," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
"Marine-Paintings of the Sea," Crane Kalman Gallery, London, UK
2005
"Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
2005
"Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
2005
"Highlights of the Bradley Collection," Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
2005
Milton Avery: The Flying Pig and Other Winged Creatures: An Exhibition of the Artist’s Illustrations and Prints. The New York Public Library, New York, NY, February 18–May 27, extende through June 25. Exhibition brochure. (solo)
2005
Milton Avery: Connections Over Time, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 18–August 15, 2005. Traveled to Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 19–April 3, 2006. Catalogue by Sean Cavanaugh. (solo)
2005
Milton Avery: Selected Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, September 7–October 28. (solo)
2005
Milton Avery, Edwin Dickinson, Morris Graves, and Fairfield Porter, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, February 17–March 19, 2005.
2005
Landscape: Works by John Atherton, Milton Avery, Judith Belzer, Nell Blaine, Stuart Davis, Robert de Niro, William Glackens, Carolyn Harris, Charles Howard, Alex Katz, Ellen Lanyon, Jim Lutes, John Marin, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Jan Matulka, John Sloan, and John Storrs, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL, September 9–October 22.
2005
American Modern, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, California, February 3–April 2.
2004
Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors: Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 14–May 16, 2004. Catalogue with text by Eliza Rathbone. (solo)
2004
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Waddington Galleries, London, UK, May 26–June 26, 2004. Catalogue with essay by David Anfam. (solo)
2004
Milton Avery: Onrushing Waves, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY, November 4, 2004–January 29, 2005. Catalogue with text by Arthur C. Danto. (solo)
2004
"Milton Avery: Works on Paper," Waddington Galleries, London, UK
2004
"Watercolors from the Collection," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2004
"Defining an American Place: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
2003
"Contemporary Prints and Photographs from the Bruce Brown Collection," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2003
Milton Avery: Paintings and Works on Paper, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY, January 4–February 1, 2003. (solo)
2003
Milton Avery: Select Works 1933–1963, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, January 9–March 1, 2003. (solo)
2003
Milton Avery: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, April 13–August 3, 2003. (solo)
2003
Sally Michel/Milton Avery: A Portrait, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY, April 24–May 30, 2003 (extended through June 27). (solo)
2003
Milton Avery: All Creatures Great and Small, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July 4–August 4, 2003. Traveled to Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, March 6–April 5, 2004. (solo)
2003
Milton Avery — American Modernism: Avery and the Spirit of Cézanne, Paintings and Works on Paper, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, August 15–September 10, 2003. (solo)
2002
"American Masters: Paintings from the Collection of the Portland Art Museum," Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2002
"Milton Avery: The Late Paintings," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2002
"The Tiger’s Eye: The Art of a Magazine," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002
Coming to Light: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko—Provincetown Summers 1957–1961, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY: May 2–August 15, 2002. Catalogue with essays by E.A. Carmean, Jr. et al.
2002
"Milton Avery," Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario
2001
Milton Avery: Paintings of Florida, Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL, January 7–20, 2001. Catalogue with text by Donald Miller and James G. Shepp. (solo)
2001
Milton Avery: The Nude and Other Subjects, A Retrospective View: 1929–1963, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, NM, Santa Fe: July 6–August 11, 2001; Scottsdale: February 2–March 11, 2002. Catalogue with text by Edward Lucie–Smith. (solo)
2001
Milton Avery: Drawings, Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago, IL, March 16–April 27, 2001. (solo)
2001
Milton Avery: The Late Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, organized by the American Federation of Arts, November 30, 2001–January 27, 2002. Traveled to the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, CA, February 15–May 12, 2002; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, May 20–August 18, 2002. Catalogue with text by Robert Hobbs. (solo)
2001
Images from the World Between: The Circus in 20th Century American Art, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY. Traveled to: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, October 19, 2001–January 8, 2002; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, February 1, 2001–April 14, 2002; Austin Museum of Art, TX, June 7–August 19, 2002.
2001
Waddington Galleries, London, UK:Milton Avery: Late Work, Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951–63, Waddington Galleries, London, September 12–October 6, 2001. (solo)
1999
"10th Anniversary Exhibition," Cooley Gallery, Portland, OR
1999
‘Silence’ in Painting: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Crane Kalman Gallery Ltd., London, UK, October 21–November 27, 1999.
1999
Milton Avery: Paintings and Works on Paper, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY, February 3–27, 1999. Catalogue with text by Bridget Moore. (solo)
1999
Milton Avery: Major Paintings, 1929–1962, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, March 13 – April 12, 1999. Traveled to Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 4–July 5, 1999.Milton Avery in Gloucester and Provincetown, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, April 3–28, 1999. (solo)
1999
Milton Avery Revisited: Works from the Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection, Syracuse University Lubin House, New York, NY, October 14–November 20, 1999. Traveled to Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY, September 17–October 12, 2000. Catalogue with text by Edward A. Alken. (solo)
1999
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY, November 10–December 22, 1999. (solo)
1999
Milton Avery: Edge of Abstraction. Knoedler & Company, New York, NY, November 10, 1999–January 22, 2000. Catalogue with text by Stephen Polcari. (solo)
1999
"Color & Field," American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
1998
Milton Avery, The Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, August 21–September 22, 1998. (solo)
1997
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, November 6–December 13, 1997. (solo)
1997
Milton Avery: Paintings, Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. (solo)
1997
Milton Avery: Paintings and Works on Paper, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY, November 5–December 6, 1997. (solo)
1996
Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolours, Waddington Galleries, London, UK, May 22–June 15, 1996. (solo)
1996
Milton Avery: Selected Works, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July 19–August 12, 1996. (solo)
1995
Milton Avery: Early Promise—Late Fulfillment, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 5–February 1, 1995. (solo)
1994
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, dates unknown. (solo)
1994
Milton Avery: Paintings from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, September 11–November 13, 1994. Traveled to Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, December 3, 1994–February 26, 1995, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, September 16–November 12, 1995. (solo)
1994
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 18, 1994–January 22, 1995. Catalogue with text by Carlotta J. Owens. (solo)
1994
Milton Avery: Ebb & Flow, a Survey of Works on Paper, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, November 21, 1994–January 29, 1995. Traveled to Harmon–Meek Gallery, Naples, FL, March 12–18, 1995; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL, November 1, 1997–January 4, 1998. (solo)
1994
Milton Avery, Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, December 6, 1994–February 6, 1995. (solo)
1994
Milton Avery and International Masters: Paintings and Works on Paper, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 5–29, 1994.
1994
Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, June–September 1994.
1993
Works by Milton Avery, The Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, closing February 28, 1993.Milton Avery: Work on Paper, 1930–63, Associated American Artists, New York, NY, June 3–July 2, 1993. Catalogue with text by Emilio Steinberger. (solo)
1993
Milton Avery, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum at The Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, August 7–26, 1993. (solo)
1993
Milton Avery: Animals, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 16–February 13, 1993. (solo)
1992
Milton Avery: Sun and Moon Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 4–February 1, 1992. (solo)
1992
Milton Avery: Portraits, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, January 11–February 5, 1992Milton Avery: Important Watercolors and Works on Paper, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada, opening November 14, 1992; Traveled to Marianne Friedland Gallery, Naples, FL. (solo)
1991
Milton Avery: Paintings and Works on Paper, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA,February 6–March 2, 1991. (solo)
1991
Milton Avery: Watercolors 1929–1960, Farnsworth Museum of Art, Farnsworth, CT, August 25–October 27, 1991. Traveled to Harmon–Meek Gallery II, Naples, FL, April 6–25, 1992; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, June 14–August 23, 1992. (solo)
1990
Milton Avery: Land and Seascapes, Ulysses Gallery, Vienna, Austria and New York, NY, May 1990. (solo)
1990
Early Avery, Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, July–August 1990. (solo)
1990
Avery in Black and White: Drawings 1929–59, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, September 28–December 31, 1990. Catalogue with text by Linda Konheim Kramer. (solo)
1990
Milton Avery: Important Drawings, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada: April 7–25, 1990. (solo)
1990
Milton Avery: Important Watercolours, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada, April 28–May 20, 1990. (solo)
1990
Milton Avery: Works from the 1950s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. (solo)
1990
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York,, NY, January 5–February 3, 1990. (solo)
1990
Milton Avery: Land and Seascapes, Ulysses Gallery, Vienna, Austria and New York, NY, May 1990. (solo)
1990
Early Avery, Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, July–August (solo)
1990
Three Americans: Milton Avery, Raphael Sawyer, Max Weber, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, March 15–April 14, 1990.
1989
The Painter and the Printmaker: Milton Avery, Stanley Boxer, Frank Faulkner, Helen Frankenthaler, Louis Lozowick, Neil Marshall, Emily Mason, Robert Motherwell, Jules Olitski, Associated American Artists, New York, NY, May 2–June 2, 1989.
1989
Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolors — Mexican Series: 1946–1947, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, February 16–March 25, 1989. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery: The Poetic Vision – Paintings, Prints, Drawings 1918–1963, Joseloff Gallery, University Center, University of Hartford, CT, April 14–May 7, 1989. Catalogue with text by Zina Davis; catalogue with text by Hilton Kramer. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery: The 1940s Period, David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, May 22–July 22, 1989. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery on Cape Ann, Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, MA, July 28–October 14, 1989. Catalogue with text by Martha Oaks. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolors, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, October 19–November 25, 1989. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery: An American Master, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, November 24, 1989–April 1, 1990. Catalogue essays by Jane Cleave and Nancy Acord. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery: My Wife Sally, My Daughter March, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 4–31, 1989. (solo)
1989
Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolors — Mexican Series: 1946–1947, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, February 16–March 25, 1989. (solo)
1989
"Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolors, Mexican Series: 1946-1947," Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
1988
"Milton Avery: Progressive Images," Bosie Art Museum, Boise, ID
1988
Milton Avery: Still Life Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 9–February 6, 1988. Catalogue with text by Sally M. Avery. (solo)
1988
Milton Avery: Important Drawings, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada, opening April 16, 1988. (solo)
1988
Milton Avery: The 1930s Period, An Exhibition of Seventy–four Oils, Watercolors. Gouaches and Drawings, David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 14–July 23, 1988. Catalogue with text by David J. Barnett and Sally Avery. (solo)
1988
Milton Avery: Progressive Images, Boise Art Museum, ID, September 3–October 23, 1988; Traveled to Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, November 7–December 16, 1988; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, January 9–February 17, 1989; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, March 3–April 23, 1989. Catalogue with text by Marla Price. (solo)
1988
Milton Avery: Major Works on Paper, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada,October 1–26, 1988. (solo)
Milton Avery, Mekler Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, opening October 16, 1988. (solo)
1988
Milton Avery: Selected Works on Paper, Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ, October 30–November 20, 1988. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery: A Singular Vision, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, Catalogue with text by Burt Chernow. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery, Seascapes, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 3–31, 1987. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery: The Artist as Printmaker, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, January 10–February 4, 1987. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Pembroke Gallery, Houston, TX, January 23–February 28, 1987. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL, February 21–April 5, 1987. Catalogue with text by Martica Sawin. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery: A Retrospective Exhibition of Prints, 1933–1955, Associated American Artists, New York, NY, May 5–June 12, 1987. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery, Figures and Symbols: Important Paintings, Bedford Gallery, Longwood Fine Arts Center, Farmville, VA, September 11–October 2, 1987. (solo)
1987
Milton Avery: Works and Gifts from the Collection of Roy R. Neuberger/Selections from Connecticut Collectors, Museum of Art, Science & Industry, Bridgeport, CT, October 17–November 29, 1987. Catalogue with text by Evelyn Edwards Milman. (solo)
1987
"Milton Avery: A Singular Vision," Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1986
Milton Avery: Portraits 1928–1963, Family and Friends, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, February 1–27, 1986. (solo)
1986
Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, May 4–June 15, 1986. Traveled to Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, February 7–April 13, 1986; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada, July 17–August 24, 1986; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada, September 12–October 26, 1986; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, November 30, 1986– January 11, 1987; Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada, February 4–March 11, 1987, Catalogue with text by Karen Wilkin. (solo)
1986
Milton Avery's Birds & Beasts, 1931–1963, Harmon–Meek Gallery, Naples, FL, March 24–April 15, 1986. Traveled to Pensacola Museum of Art, FL, April 15–June 15, 1986; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, September 6–October 11, 1987 and elsewhere. (solo)
1986
Milton Avery, Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 1986. (solo)
1985
Milton Avery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 4–30, 1985. (solo)
Milton Avery: A Retrospective of Forty–Eight Oil, Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings, Monotypes, and Original Prints, David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, December 8, 1984–January 31, 1985. Catalogue with text by Sally Avery, catalogue with text by Gerald Nordland. (solo)
1984
Milton Avery's Mexico, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, April 22–June 17, 1984. Traveled to Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe June 30–August 5, 1984; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida August 19–September 16, 1984; Blount, Inc., Montgomery, AL, October 1–November 4, 1984; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, November 17–December 30, 1984; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, February 24–April 21, 1985; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ, May 4–June 30, 1985. Catalogue with text by Frank Getlein. (solo)
1984
Milton Avery: Major Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 7–February 1, 1984. (solo)
1984
Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi, The Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, March 26–April 15, 1984. Catalogue with text by Richard Roth.
1984
Three American Artists in Quebec: Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe and Milton Avery, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA: October 18–December 2, 1984. Catalogue with text by Bruce Russell.
1983
Milton Avery, Art Center Hall, Tokyo, Japan, May 27–June 15, 1983. (solo)
1983
Milton Avery: Mexico, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, February 5–March 3, 1983. Catalogue with text by Sally M. Avery and Dore Ashton. (solo)
Milton Avery: opere dal 1929 al 1962, Galleria La Medusa, Rome, Italy, May–June 1983. (solo)
1983
Milton Avery: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, June 2–August 21, 1983. (solo)
1983
Milton Avery: Woodcuts 1952–1955, Midland Art Council of the Midland Center for the Arts, Inc., Midland, MI, August 28–October 2, 1983. (solo)
1982
Milton Avery: Important Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, September 11–October 6, 1982. (solo)
1982
Milton Avery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, September 16–December 5, 1982. Traveled to Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, January 15 – March 6, 1983; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, March 22 – May 8, 1983; Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, May 21–July 10, 1983; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, July 27–September 4, 1983; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, September 18 October 30, 1983. Catalogue with text by Barbara Haskell. (solo)
1982
"American Prints: Process and Proofs," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1982
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London, UK. (solo)
1982
The Gaspé by Milton Avery: Paintings and Watercolours, Theo. Waddington Galleries, Montreal, Canada, March 4–27, 1982. (solo)
1982
Milton Avery: The Transcending Years, 1921–1941, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, January 1982. Catalogue with text by Sally M. Avery. (solo)
1982
Milton Avery: Major Works, Boca Raton Center for the Arts, Boca Raton, FL, January 5–29, 1982. Traveled to Dolly Fiterman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, June 4–July 10, 1982. (solo)
1982
The Gloucester Years, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, February 6–March 4, 1982. (solo)
1982
Milton Avery Retrospective: Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, The Harmon Gallery, Naples, FL, March 14–April 3, 1982; Traveled to Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN, June 10–July 11, 1982. Catalogue with text by Alice Nash. (solo)
1982
Milton Avery on Paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT,September 10–November 3, 1982. (solo)
1982
The Gloucester Years: Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, February 6–March 4, 1982.
"Milton Avery: Major Works," Boca Raton Center for the Art, Boca Raton, FL
1981
"Milton Avery: Works on Paper," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Fransisco, CA
1981
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, October 10–November 4, 1981 (solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Major Paintings and Works on Paper, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada, October 17–November 11, 1981. (solo)
1981
Milton Avery, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London, UK, November 4–27, 1981.(solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Important Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, April 18–May, 1981. Catalogue with text by Dennis Adrian. (solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Figures from the Forties, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London, UK. Catalogue with text by Sally Michel Avery and Marla Price. (solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Major Paintings and Graphics, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, Canada, January 5–31, 1981. Catalogue with text by E. Theodore Lindberg. (solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Frans Wyans Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, January 19–February 20, 1981. (solo)
Milton Avery—Early and Late, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale–on–Hudson, NY, May 29–July 31, 1981. Catalogue with text by Marla Price. (solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Clarke–Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July 25–August 19, 1981. Catalogue with text by William Benton. (solo)
1981
Avery in Mexico and After, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, August 28–October 4, 1981. Traveled to Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, October 22–December 13, 1981; Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, January 8–February 22, 1982; El Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, March 13–April 26, 1982 (solo)
1981
Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, May 16–July 4, 1982. Catalogue with text by Sally M. Avery, Marla Price; catalogue essays by Dore Ashton, Fernando Gamboa, Carla Stellweg, Salvador Elizondo. (solo)
1981
Milton Avery: Paintings and Works on Paper, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA,September 9–October 3, 1981. (solo)
1980
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, College of Wooster, OH, May 18–June 10, 1980. (solo)
1980
Milton Avery Works on Paper, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, May 30–July 13, 1980. Traveled to The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, NH. (solo)
1980
Milton Avery, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London, UK, June 3–28, 1980. (solo)
1980
Milton Avery: The Late Paintings, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH, September 13–November 2, 1980. (solo)
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, May 31–April 24, 1979. (solo)
1979
Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ:Milton Avery, June 11–29, 1979 held at the Western Electric Corporate Education Center, Hopewell, NJ. (solo)
July 9–September 10, 1978. Traveled to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Plymouth State College Art Galleries, Plymouth, NH; St. Paul's School, Concord, NH. Catalogue with text by Martin Dibner, Edward Albee, John Canaday. (solo)
1978
Milton Avery, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 22–October 22, 1978 Traveled to Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada; Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Catalogue with text by Raymond Ouellet. (solo)
1978
Milton Avery, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, October 2–31, 1978. (solo)
1978
Milton Avery: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 1978–January 20, 1979. (solo)
1978
Milton Avery, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, February 4–March 5, 1978. (solo)
Milton Avery and His Friends, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 28–February 24, 1978.
1978
The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta (solo)
1977
"Print Aquisitions," The Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY
1977
Milton Avery, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, February 6–28, 1977. (solo)
1977
Milton Avery, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, TX, March 1977. (solo)
1977
Milton Avery Monotypes, Graphic Arts Collection, Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 7–June 30, 1977. Catalogue with text by O.J. Rothrock (solo)
Milton Avery: The Late Years, The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY, July 17–September 4, 1977. Memorial text by Mark Rothko. (solo)
1977
Milton Avery Monotypes, Associated American Artists, New York, NY, October 3–28, 1977. Catalogue with text by Sylvan Cole, Jr.; memorial address by Mark Rothko. (solo)
1977
Milton Avery: Paintings and Prints, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS, November 30, 1977–January 15, 1978. Catalogue with text by Earl A. Powell III. (solo)
1976
Milton Avery: Selections from the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., December 13, 1976–November 17, 1977. (solo)
1976
Milton Avery Prints from 1933 to 1955, Center Gallery, University of Maine at Portland–Gorham, ME, October 6–November 5, 1976. (solo)
1976
Milton Avery: Drawings and Paintings, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX, December 5, 1976–February 6, 1977. Traveled to Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, March December 5, 1976–February 6, 1977. Traveled to Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, March (solo)
1976
Paintings and Drawings by Milton Avery Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, January 24–February 12, 1976. (solo)
1976
Milton Avery and the Landscape, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 15–April 16, 1976. Catalogue with text by Stephanie Terenzio. (solo)
Milton Avery: Prints, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, May 29–August 10, 1976. (solo)
1976
Milton Avery: 23 Works on Paper, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, September 18–October 17, 1976. (solo)
1975
Milton Avery, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 15–April 8, 1975. (solo)
1975
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, April 26–May 24, 1975. (solo)
1975
Milton Avery Paintings and Drawings, David Gallery, Pittsford, NY, January 3–24, 1975. (solo)
1975
Milton Avery, Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, January 10–February 3, 1975. (solo)
1975
Landscapes, Interior and Exterior: Avery, Rothko, and Schueler – An Exhibition of Paintings by Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Jon Schueler, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, July –August 31, 1975.
Milton Avery: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C., May 4–June 18, 1974. Catalogue with text by Hilton Kramer. (solo)
1974
15 Years: A Retrospective Exhibit Featuring the Paintings of Milton Avery, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, TX, October–November 1974. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery, Waddington Fine Art Galleries, Montreal, Quebec, March 31–April 21, 1973. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, October 5–30, 1973. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery: The Gaspé Peninsula, Summer, 1938, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, October 21–November 14, 1973. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery Drawings, Housatonic Museum of Art, Housatonic Regional Community College, Bridgeport, CT, November 1973. Catalogue with text by Burt Chernow. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, November 1–30, 1973. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery: Paintings, Watercolors and Prints, Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA:January 26–February 24, 1973. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery (1893–1965): The Complete Collection of Etchings, Lithographs and Woodcuts from 1933–1955, Associated American Artists, New York, NY, January 29–February 17, 1973. (solo)
1973
The Graphic Work of Milton Avery, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,January–February 1973 (Traveled). Exhibition catalogue with catalogue raisonné of Avery’s prints, and text by Harry Lunn, Jr., Frank Getlein and Alan Fern. (solo)
1973
The Graphic Work of Milton Avery, 1933–1955, Rudolph Galleries, Coral Gables, FL, February 1973. (solo)
1973
Milton Avery: Oil Crayons, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, March 31–April 26, 1973. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery: Oils on Paper, Monotypes, Watercolors, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 4–27, 1972. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery: Works from 1934 to 1962, Lunn Gallery, Inc., Washington, D.C., April 22–May 17, 1972. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, May 12–June 12, 1972. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery Drawings, Lubin House Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, November 21–December 15, 1972. Catalogue with text by August L. Freundlich. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery’s oils and watercolors on paper, M. Knoedler & Cie., Paris, France, opening January 20, 1972. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery: Oils on Paper, Monotypes, Watercolors, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, January 4–27, 1972. (solo)
1972
Milton Avery: Works from 1934 to 1962, Lunn Gallery, Inc., Washington, D.C., April 22–May 17, 1972. (solo)
1971
Milton Avery, Oil Paintings: The Middle Years 1941–1949, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI, January 23–February 20, 1971. (solo)
1971
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, William Cooper Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale–on–Hudson, NY, February 4–28, 1971. Catalogue with text by Matt Phillips. (solo)
1971
Milton Avery: Late Paintings (1958–1963), University of California, Irvine, CA, February 16–March 14, 1971. Catalogue with text by Stephanie Gordon Noland. (solo)
Milton Avery: Paintings, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London, UK, March 31–April 24, 1971. (solo)
1971
The Sea by Milton Avery, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH, September 26–October 16, 1971. Traveled to Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, October 22 – November 21, 1971; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, November 30 – December 17, 1971. Catalogue with text by Henry Geldzahler. (solo)
1971
"Milton Avery: Late Paintings," University of California, Irvine, CA
1971
Paintings by Milton Avery and His Family, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, September 4–26, 1971.
1971
"Ways of Looking," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1970
Milton Avery, The Louisiana Gallery, Houston, TX, February 1970. (solo)
1970
Milton Avery: Watercolors, Paintings, Drawings, Waddington Fine Art Galleries, Montreal, Canada, April 7–25, 1970. (solo)
1970
Milton Avery, The Washington Art Gallery, Washington, CT, June 13–July 4, 1970. (solo)
1970
Milton Avery: Watercolors and Gouaches, St. Joseph College, West Hartford, CT, August–September 1970. (solo)
1970
Drawings by Milton Avery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, October 31–November 25, 1970. (solo)
1970
Milton Avery: Works on Paper, The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, November 10–December 12, 1970. (solo)
1970
Milton Avery: An Exhibition of Works on Paper, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 7–December 4, 1970. (solo)
1969
Milton Avery, Rudolph Galleries, Coral Gables, FL, January 1969. (solo)
1969
Milton Avery: Land and Seascapes, 1958 to 1960, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada,February 21–March 17, 1969. (solo)
1969
Milton Avery, The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, April 5–30, 1969. Catalogue with text by Frank Getlein. (solo)
1969
Milton Avery: Monotypes, Watercolors, and Drawings, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 3–July 13, 1969. Catalogue with text by Una E. Johnson. (solo)
1969
Milton Avery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,December 12, 1969–January 30, 1970. Catalogue with text by Adelyn D. Breeskin. (solo)
1968
Milton Avery Drawings, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI, December 10, 1968–January 4, 1969. (solo)
1968
Milton Avery, Rudolph Galleries, Coral Gables, FL, February 1968. (solo)
1968
Milton Avery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, April 27–May 24, 1968. Catalogue with text by Frederick S. Wight. (solo)
1968
A Small Retrospective Survey of Paintings and Drawings by Milton Avery, Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco, CA, September 1968. Catalogue with text by Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, James R. Mellow. (solo)
1968
Milton Avery, The K Gallery, Woodstock, NY, September 1968. (solo)
1968
Watercolors: Milton Avery, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London, UK, October 1–24, 1968. (solo)
1968
Milton Avery, 1893–1965, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, October 27–November 24, 1968. Catalogue with text by Helen Boswell. (solo)
1968
Milton Avery: Oils, Watercolors, and Graphics, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, December 2–31, 1968. (solo)
1968
The Milton Avery Family, The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, November 2–December 1, 1968.
1967
Milton Avery: Middle Period Paintings, 1935–1953, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London, England, September 26–October 28, 1967. (solo)
1967
Milton Avery Paintings, 1950–63, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, October 1–21, 1967. (solo)
1967
Milton Avery, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada, opening October 21. (solo)
1967
Milton Avery Paintings, 1950–63, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, October 1–21, 1967. (solo)
1967
Milton Avery, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada, opening October 21. (solo)
1966
Milton Avery: Watercolors, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, February 20–March 19. (solo)
1966
Milton Avery, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 17–April 3. (solo)
1966
Lincoln Art Association: Milton Avery Art Show, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 3–May 1. Traveled to Arkansas Arts Center, MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 6 – June 26. Catalogue with text by Frank Getlein. (solo)
1966
Milton Avery, Esther Stuttman Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 3–May 1. Catalogue with text by Adelyn D. Breeskin, John Canaday, Esther Stuttman. (solo)
1966
Milton Avery: Watercolors, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., England, April 26–May 21. (solo)
1966
Milton Avery Memorial Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, August 4–31. (solo)
1966
Avery: Oils, Water Colors, and Graphics, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,November 1–26, 1966. (solo)
1966
Milton Avery, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, November 7–December 3, 1966. Catalogue with text by Henry Geldzahler. (solo)
Milton Avery, HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 21–27. (solo)
1964
"Paintings by Milton Avery," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1964
"The Coming of Color," Flint Insitute of Arts, Flint, MI
1963
Milton Avery, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1–30. (solo)
1963
Milton Avery: Etchings and Woodcuts, Associated American Artists, New York, October 21–November 9. Catalogue with text by Francis J. Newton. (solo)
1963
Milton Avery, James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo, New York, October 27–November 16. (solo)
1963
Milton Avery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, October 29–November 23. (solo)
1962
Milton Avery, The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London, England, September 25–October 20. Catalogue with text by Clement Greenberg [reprinted from Arts 32 (December 1957)].
1962
Milton Avery, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 9–November 4.
1962
Milton Avery, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, November 1–30. Catalogue with text by John F. Ross and Theodore B. Fitzwater.
1962
Milton Avery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, January 2–20. (solo)
1962
Paintings by Milton Avery, Park Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, January 7–27. (solo)
1962
Milton Avery: An Exhibition of Paintings, The Carillon, Byrd Park, Richmond, Virginia,February 4–25. (solo)
Milton Avery: Watercolors, Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pensylvannia, February 4–March 8. (solo)
1959
Milton Avery, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, September. (solo)
1959
Milton Avery: Preview, HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, September 1. (solo)
1959
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas, November 27, 1976–January 5, 1977. Catalogue. (solo)
1958
Milton Avery: Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, November 18–December 13.
1958
Milton Avery, HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 1–12. (solo)
1958
Milton Avery: Oils and Watercolors, Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, Washington, October 18–November 15. (solo)
1958
Milton Avery: Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, November 18–December 13. (solo)
1958
"Milton Avery: Oils and Watercolors," Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA
1957
Milton Avery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, October 28–November 16, Catalogue.
1956
Milton Avery, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, October 22–November 10.. Catalogue with text by Frederick S. Wight. (solo)
1956
Milton Avery Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, April 16–May 5.Milton Avery, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, June 5–July 8.Milton Avery, Texas National Bank, Houston, Texas, sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 12–July 6. (solo)
1956
Milton Avery, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, June 5–July 8 (solo)
Milton Avery: Recent Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, March 29–April 17. (solo)
1953
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1952
The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1952
Milton Avery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, December 9, 1952–January 18, 1953 and Traveled. Catalogue with text by Adelyn D. Breeskin and Frederick S. Wight. (solo)
1952
Milton Avery: Retrospective and Recent Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, December 8–27. (solo)
1951
Milton Avery: Recent Paintings, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, October 15–November 4. (solo)
1950
Milton Avery Monotypes, Laurel Gallery, New York, December 12–30. (solo)
1949
Paintings by Milton Avery, Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York, April 25–May 14. (solo)
1947
My Daughter March, Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York, February 4–March 1. (solo)
1947
Milton Avery Paintings, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, March 3–30. (solo)
1947
"My Daughter March," Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, NY
1946
"Advancing American Art," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1946
Recent Paintings by Milton Avery, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, February 4–28. (solo)
1946
Exhibition of Water Colors by Milton Avery, Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York, February 4–28. (solo)
1945
Recent Gouaches by Milton Avery, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, January 8–February 3. (solo)
1945
Paintings by Milton Avery, Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York, January 9–February 3. (solo)
1945
"Art and Antiques Show," 17th Regiment Armory, New York, NY
1944
"Watercolors by Milton Avery," Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
1944
Recent Paintings by Milton Avery, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, February 15–March 11. (solo)
1944
Milton Avery, Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York, April–May.Avery, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, May 2–31. (solo)
1944
Watercolors by Milton Avery, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C., January 9–31. (solo)
1943
Recent Paintings by Milton Avery, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, June 1–26.Recent Watercolors by Milton Avery, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, October 15–November 15. (solo)
1942
Milton Avery: Paintings, Valentine Gallery, New York, November 30–December 26. Catalogue with text by Samuel M. Kootz
1940
"20th Century Figure Paintings," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (solo)
1938
Milton Avery, Valentine Gallery, New York, April 11–30. (solo)
1936
Milton Avery Watercolors, Valentine Gallery, New York, February 24–March 7. (solo)
1935
Paintings by Milton Avery, Valentine Gallery, New York, March 11–30. (solo)
