“Going Upstate: The Avery Family in Woodstock” gallery talk with curator Bruce Weber

image: Sean Cavanaugh, Water, Mist and Mountain, 2018, watercolor on paper, 9″ x 12″

Join curator Bruce Weber for a tour of the exhibition Going Upstate: The Avery Family in Woodstock.

Spanning four generations, the exhibition brings together works by Milton Avery and Sally Michel Avery, their daughter March Avery, her husband Philip G. Cavanaugh, their son Sean Cavanaugh, and his child Delilah Cavanaugh. For the first time, the public will have the opportunity to experience an intimate look at the art created in Woodstock by the Avery family — a body of work deeply rooted in American modernism.

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About the Curator

Art historian and poet Bruce Weber received his Ph.D. in art history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where he studied with his longtime mentor Dr. William H. Gerdts. A leading scholar of American art of the past two centuries, Dr. Weber has served as a curator at several museums, including the Norton Museum of Art, the National Academy Museum and the Museum of the City of New York, and as the director of research and exhibitions at Berry-Hill Galleries in New York from 1990 to 2007.

Dr. Weber has published widely and curated numerous exhibitions on, among others, the artists William Merritt Chase, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stuart Davis and Will Barnet, and has organized shows on such diverse topics as the apple and rose in American art, late 19th and early 20th century American bronze figurative sculpture, and images of New York’s Flatiron Building and Washington Square. For the past several years he has been focusing his art historical attention primarily on the historic Woodstock art colony. Since 2020, Dr. Weber has curated twelve historical exhibitions in town and has produced and written extensively for his website Learning Woodstock Art Colony.