Art, literature & historyStudious Sketcher
1944–45
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 107 x 86.7 x 6.4 cm (42 1/8 x 34 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1967.94
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Studious Sketcher — Milton Avery. 1944–45.
Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: Framed: 107 x 86.7 x 6.4 cm (42 1/8 x 34 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Avery developed a distinctive style that uses abstracted shapes of color and witty design to describe the visual world. In Studious Sketcher, a seated artist concentrates her attention on a board propped against the back of a chair, upon which she presumably draws. The chair’s crisscross pattern is visually repeated in the single cross strap near the toe of the woman’s sandal.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.