March Avery (b.1932, New York). The daughter of artists Milton Avery and Sally Michel, March Avery began painting as a child. Growing up within artistic circles, Avery always knew she would become a painter herself. Nevertheless, on her parents’ advice, she eschewed formal training and studied philosophy, not art, at Barnard College, New York, graduating in 1954. Marrying the same year, to scholar and photographer Philip G. Cavanaugh, in 1969 she gave birth to their son, Sean Avery Cavanaugh, also an accomplished artist.

Avery has continued to paint all her life. Her first solo exhibition was in 1957 at the Waverly Gallery in New York. And, since 1962, her work has been included in many family exhibitions, most recently Summer with the Averys [Milton/Sally/March], at the Bruce Museum, in Connecticut, an innovative retrospective of the three artists.

Since 2019, Avery’s international exposure has blossomed, with exhibitions in London, Tokyo, Zürich and now Floriana. In 2024, a comprehensive monograph March Avery: A Life in Color was published in London by Black Dog Press.

Now long-established as an artist, until very recently March Avery continued her family’s tradition of punctuating the months spent working in oil in her New York studio with summers painting in watercolour, and trips outside the city: including, the Catskill Mountains and Cape Cod, France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Belgium, Ireland, and Italy.

March Avery’s work is represented in public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum; Bryn Mawr College; The Farnsworth Art Museum; Newark Museum of Art; New Britain Museum of American Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Vanderbilt University; and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum.