Spring+Orchard

Date: 1959
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1969/1969.47.52_1a.jpg?itok=GwLBdBt8 width="354" height="268" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/spring-orchard-708"]] || Title: **Spring Orchard**

Artist: **Milton Avery** Born: Sand Bank, New York 1885 Died: New York, New York 1965

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 50 x 66 1/4 in. (127.0 x 168.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

Accession: 1969.47.52 || Milton Avery may have found the subject for this painting in the area around Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he often vacationed. But this work seems to be less about a specific landscape than about a season's soft glowing light and refreshing colors.
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