SALLY MICHEL (1902-2003)

from the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
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Selected Solo Exhibitions

1957
Village Art Center, New York, NY

1979
Sally Michel: Mountain Landscapes, The Erpf Catskill Cultural Center, Arkville, NY.

1982
Ulster County Council for the Arts, Kingston, NY.

1985
Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY (now the Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts).

1987
Sally Michel: The Other Avery, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA. Robert Hobbs, curator. Exhibition traveled through 1988.

1990
Fresno Art Museum, California. Catalogue with essay by Nancy Acord.

1999-2000
Sally Michel: Retrospective, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.

2024
Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL. Opens September 20th.

Selected Group Exhibitions

1933
Painting and Sculpture by Wives of Painters and Sculptors, Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York.

1950
New York City Center Gallery, New York, NY.
Woodstock Art Center, New York.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY.

1956
Village Art Center, New York, NY (First Prize – oil paintings).

1957
Village Art Center, New York, NY (Second Prize – drawings).

1959
Two Husband and Wife Painting Teams, Rudolph Galleries, Coral Gables, FL (Sally Michel, Milton Avery, Arnold Blanch, and Doris Lee).
Paul Kessler Gallery, Provincetown, MA (also 1965-1967).

1962
Milton Avery, Sally Michel, March Avery, New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Mr. and Mrs. Show, Gallery 14, Inc., Palm, Beach, FL (c. 1962).

1963
Avery Family Group Show. Rye Free Reading Room, New York.

1966
Milton Avery and Family: “An Album of a Contemporary Family of Artists,” Gallery Reese Palley, Atlantic City, NJ. Catalogue.

1968
The Milton Avery Family, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut. Catalogue.

1971
Paintings by Milton Avery and His Family, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania. Catalogue with text by Frank Getlein.

1977
Woodstock, An American Art Colony, 1902-1977, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.

1985
The Avery Family: Milton Avery, Sally Michel, March Avery– An Exhibition of Paintings, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT.

1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1986. Traveled to: Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Burling Library, Grinnell, IA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL. Catalogue with essays by Edward J. Nygren and Linda Crocker Simmons.

1987
Seventy-five American Modernists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

1989-90
American Women Artists: The Twentieth Century, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee. In conjunction with Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN. Traveled to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY. Catalogue with text by Elsa Honig Fine and essay on Sally Michel by Robert Hobbs.

1994-96
Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia, 1994; The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 1994-1995; Rockford Museum of Art, IL, 1995; Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI, 1995; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 1996. Catalogue with essays by Charlotta Kotik and Judith Swirsky.

1997-98
Preserving the Past, Securing the Future: Donations of Art, 1987-1997, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

2001
Celebration of the Horse, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.

2003
Sally Michel/Milton Avery: A Portrait, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY.

2015-16
Provincetown Artists: A Survey of American Modern to Abstract Art, Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA.

2019
Summer with the Averys: Milton / Sally / March, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut. Catalogue with text by Kenneth E. Silver and interview with March Avery by Stephanie Guyet.

2022
Arriving at Byrdcliffe, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, New York.

2023
In Care of the Historical Society of Woodstock: Selected Survey of Woodstock Art Colony Works on Paper, Historical Society of Woodstock, NY.

Fellowships

Bok Fellows, The Research Studio, Maitland, FL (1949/1950, 1950/1951)
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH (1953, 1954, and 1956)
Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY (1955)

Museum Collections

Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
Art & History Museums, Maitland, FL
Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph, Hartford, CT
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Bryn Mawr College Art & Artifacts Collections, Pennsylvania
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Fresno Art Museum, California
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
National Gallery of Art (Corcoran Collection), Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
University of St. Thomas–Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, New York