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Milton Avery, Black Sea (1959), a pared-back seascape in flat bands of colour

The Phillips Collection · Dupont Circle

Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea

Upcoming24 October 2026 – 24 January 2027·$20

Around 90 works from the 1920s to the mid-1960s tracing the friendship of Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, forged over shared summers in Gloucester. Many shown publicly for the first time.

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Milton Avery / The Phillips Collection (Courtesy of the museum)