Discipline: Visual Art

Sally Avery

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1953, 1954, 1956
Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) was an American painter and illustrator from Brooklyn, NY. She began studying at the Art Students League, and spent her summers painting in Gloucester, MA. She then worked in New York where she made a living as a commercial illustrator for numerous publications. Avery’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Fresno Art Museum; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT; The Housatonic Community College Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT; the University of Iowa Museum of Art in Iowa City; the Holyoke Museum at the University of Iowa; Grinnell College; and in many private collections.