Sally Michel Avery

Sally Michel Avery (née Michel; 1902–January 9, 2003) was an performer and illustrator who created modernist paintings of abstracted figures, landscapes, and genre scenes capturing personal moments of all day life. She was the co-creator of the "Avery style", wife and accessory of artist Milton Avery, and mommy of artiste March Avery. Throughout their lives, Michel and Avery shared their studio spread together, painting side by side, critiquing each other's work, and developing a shared style which includes the use of abstracted subjects, expressionistic color fields, and polite but unusual colors juxtapositions. Michel's feat is the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (Corcoran Collection), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Israel Museum, among others.