Milton Avery "Swimmers and Sunbathers" Vintage Framed Exhibition Poster Rare original exhibition poster for Milton Avery. The lithograph print poster is published in an unnumbered limited edition by The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in 1987. For the Twentieth Century Art Exhibition. Original painting was created in 1945. Sunbathers on the river bank as a pink swimmer flashes by. Framed in a chrome metal frame under plexiglass. Print has noticeable fading, foxing to margins. Tape residue and foxing marks on back. Measures 43" wide x 28.5" tall framed. Milton Clark Avery (1885 – 1965) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father of artist March Avery. Avery's work is seminal to American abstract painting—while his work is clearly representational, it focuses on color relations and is not concerned with creating the illusion of depth as most conventional Western painting since the Renaissance has. Avery was often thought of as an American Matisse, especially because of his colorful and innovative landscape paintings. His poetic, bold and creative use of drawing and color set him apart from more conventional painting of his era. Early in his career, his work was considered too radical for being too abstract; when Abstract Expressionism became dominant his work was overlooked, as being too representational.