Also called Sally Michel It is nearly impossible to talk about the work of American artist Sally Michel without also discussing that of her husband, Milton Avery, with whom she shared a studio for decades. Together, the 2created a visual language of simplified graphic forms imbued with the vibrant colors of Fauvism. Michel studied at New York’s Art Students League and spent her career creating enticing, expressionistic landscapes, figures, and still lifes in oil and watercolor, many inspired by the charms of daily life and her love of Gloucester, Massachusetts. With its flattened foreground and background and color palette similar to that of Henri Matisse, Michel’s work has been referred to as an “American folk art version of Parisian Modernism. (https://www.artsy.net/artist/sally-michel) Sally Michel was born in 1902. She studied at the Art Students League and spent summers painting in Gloucester, MA, where she met Milton Avery. Milton followed Sally from Gloucester to New York where they married in 1926. Sally illustrated for many publications and acted as the primary financial supporter for her family until the 1950s when Milton's works started selling. ...she and Milton shared studio space and acted as critics and collaborators for one another. ...Sally Michel drew little attention to her art as a masterful oeuvre. Rather, she stuck to her goal of simply capturing the charm and delightfulness of the daily life that surrounded her. ... Their styles changed and moved together, resulting in the "Avery style." Although both the Averys were committed to the same goal of painting familiar surroundings in a modern style, Sally's art was somewhat different than Milton's. She never painted... (http://www.childsgallery.com/artist/94) Sally Michel Avery, an artist, illustrator and widow of the painter Milton Avery, died on Jan. 9. She was 100 and lived in Manhattan. (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/nyregion/sally-michel-avery-100-illustrator-and-artist.html) undefined

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