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Michel continued to paint in her free time and shared space in the studio alongside her husband, Milton Avery, often working on smaller 18 x 20 inch canvases. The two critiqued one another as they developed what would be known as the Avery style, an artistic reflection on the importance of family and
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empathy to the hardships of the Great
Depression. With Michel's encouragement as Avery's manager, studio mate, and wife, his career took off during the 1950s. Michel and her family chose to travel and paint almost every summer, visiting Massachusetts, Vermont, Florida, Canada, Mexico and Europe.
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moved to New York to be with Michel in 1926 where they would eventually live together in the top floor apartment at 294 West 11th Street, Manhattan. Michel served as the primary source of income for their small family from the 1920s-1950s, throughout the
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paintings of abstracted figures, landscapes, and genre scenes capturing personal moments of everyday life. She was the co-creator of the "Avery style", wife and collaborator of artist
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Sally Michel and Milton Avery share a vocabulary of artistic styles that included an interest in the harmony and atmospheric effects of color on abstracted, but familiar subjects.
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