March Avery (born October 12, 1932, in New York) is an

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Life

The daughter of

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and Sally Avery, March was trained by her father. She grew up around other famous artists such as Mark Rothko, Adolf Gottlieb,

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, Byron Browne, and Marsden Hartley. She attended the Little Red School House in New York. She graduated from

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and married Philip Cavanaugh, with whom she has a son named Sean. Her work has been shown at the

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, Brooklyn, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; and the

Chrysler Museum of Art The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. ...

, Norfolk, Virginia.

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*'Artists' Estates Reputations in Trust'. Ed. by Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau. (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 150–151. 1932 births Living people American women painters Barnard College alumni 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American painters 21st-century American women artists {{US-painter-1930s-stub