A good dose of colour therapy
THREE cheers for the Royal Academy (RA) in its staging of the first major retrospective exhibition for American artist Milton Avery in 40 years. This must-see show is a tribute to the uplifting —and positively healing—power of colour.
Avery (1885–1965) was a singular painter of deep and broad significance. His strangely haunting canvases formed a delicate bridge across the Atlantic to the French Fauvists and German Expressionists and he was often likened to an American Matisse. Within his own homeland, he was the lyrical link across American Impressionism and
