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resource_ID: 
urc28_15_01_0117
creator_name: 
Avery, Henry
creator_vital_dates: 
19?? - present
creator_notes: 
Henry Campbell Avery received his BFA degree in painting from the former Swain School of Design in 1985, where he studied with David Loeffler Smith, Severin Haines and Benjamin Martinez.In 1987, he earned his MFA degree in painting from the Parsons School of Design in New York, studying with Leland Bell, John Heliker and Paul Resika.In 1986-19876, he held a Parsons Institution Scholarship as a Helena Rubenstein Scholar.Mr. Avery also studied traditional Chinese painting and printmaking at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in the People's Republic of China. A member of the Providence Art Club and the Creative Club of Providence, both in Rhode Island, Mr. Avery has also been a Visiting Artist for the University of Massachusetts/Boston Program in Nantucket.In 1996, he had a solo exhibition, "Regional Perspectives," at the Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery Art Gallery in Westport, Mass. With Jim Allen in 1998, he had a two-person exhibition at the Providence Art Club, and has participated in group exhibits at the Providence Art Club, R.I., the Rogers Gallery, Mattapoisett, and the Nemasket Gallery in Fairhaven. Henry Campbell Avery was one of 13 artists chosen in 1987 for an international exchange exhibition between the Parsons School of Design and the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts.That same year, he was selected as one of forty artists from across the nation to be included in the "Grumbacher Emerging Artists Exhibition." A resident of Mattapoisett, Henry Campbell Avery's work is represented in numerous private collections across Massachusetts.
creator_source: 
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Henry-Avery/386571170
work_dates_display: 
1983
dates: 
1983
genre: 
printmaking
format_medium: 
Monoprint
format_dimensions: 
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
subject: 
trees
Subject_sourceID: 
AAT 300132410
subject: 
grass (plant material)
Subject_sourceID: 
AAT 300011872
subject: 
field (land)
Subject_sourceID: 
AAT 300343519
subject: 
fence
Subject_sourceID: 
AAT 300005044
subject: 
hill
Subject_sourceID: 
AAT 300008777
DCMI Type Vocabulary: 
Image
cataloger: 
lscharf
date_of_catalog: 
2014/04/01