Milton Avery

Racing Sails

1960

Two wooden oars with light reflections drifting on calm turquoise water.
Two wooden oars with light reflections drifting on calm turquoise water.

Milton Avery, Racing Sails, 1960. Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet (Irregular): 23 1/8 × 35 3/8 in. (58.7 × 89.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest 77.1.2. © Milton Avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1960

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 23 1/8 × 35 3/8 in. (58.7 × 89.9 cm)

Accession number
77.1.2

Credit line
Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© Milton Avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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