The Hemingway Days Festival takes place from July 14 through 21 in Key West, Florida.
Attend writing workshops, literature readings, and even fly fishing clinics in the place where Hemingway spent ten years of his life!
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A Great Catch
The Hemingway Days Festival takes place from July 14 through 21 in Key West, Florida.
Attend writing workshops, literature readings, and even fly fishing clinics in the place where Hemingway spent ten years of his life!
Coincidentally, this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Hemingway's famous story The Old Man and the Sea! Milton Avery's Man Fishing "catches" the flavor of this story and Hemingway's Florida pursuits.
Many of Avery's paintings originated during summers away from his New York City home. A quiet man who seldom participated in conversations about him, Avery constantly sketched—landscapes, people, interiors—whatever was at hand. Man Fishing, for example, which probably dates from Avery's summer on the Gaspé Peninsula in 1938, indicates the degree of formal simplification that his sketches occasionally took.
Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction 1930–1945 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1989).
Pictured: Milton Avery, 1885–1965, Man Fishing, about 1938, oil on fiberboard, 10 x 13 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost.