PRESALE: Avery, Gottlieb, & Rothko: By the Sea Exhibition Catalog

The exhibition catalog for Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea is available for presale! Orders will be shipped on the release date of March 24th!

Be among the first to experience this landmark publication accompanying the exhibition Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, celebrating an extraordinary chapter in American art 

The exhibition will be on view at the Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester MA June 30–September 27, 2026. Tickets for the Exhibition will be available June 1, 2026.

This stunning volume illuminates the artistic exchange between three seminal American artists—Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko—underscoring the lasting significance of the summers they spent together by the sea in Gloucester during the 1930s and 1940s.

Twentieth-century American modernist Milton Avery is rarely linked to Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, who were eighteen years younger and later associated with the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. While Avery drew inspiration from the visible world, Gottlieb and Rothko developed nonrepresentational visual languages of their own. Despite these differences, the three artists formed a close-knit trio whose deep friendship and shared love of the ocean had a profound and lasting influence on their work.

This pioneering publication traces their relationship from 1932, when they first summered together on Cape Ann, through the crystallization of their ideas in the 1940s, and into the decades that followed, when each artist developed the mature, independent painting styles for which they are best known. Their late work, each in its own way, remains indebted to the time they spent together along the rocky coast and sandy beaches of Cape Ann.

Featuring more than 200 images, Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea is a compelling testament to the importance of shared community, time, and place in the evolution of modern art. Contributions by leading art historians and family members offer richly varied perspectives on artistic friendship and its enduring impact on the work of three of the twentieth century’s most celebrated artists.

Contributing Authors: 
Eliza Rathbone – Curator/Editor; Chief Curator Emerita, The Phillips Collection
March Avery Cavanaugh – Artist; daughter of Milton and Sally Avery
Sean Cavanaugh – Director, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Milton Avery’s grandson
Patricia Favero – Conservator, The Phillips Collection
Adam Greenhalgh – Associate Curator, National Gallery of Art
Sanford Hirsch – Executive Director, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Renée Maurer – Associate Curator, The Phillips Collection
Martha Oaks – Henrietta Gates & Heaton Robertson Chief Curator, Cape Ann Museum
Kate Rothko Prizel – Retired research pathologist; daughter of Mark Rothko
Christopher Rothko – Chair, Board of Directors, Rothko Chapel; son of Mark Rothko

In association with the Cape Ann Museum and The Phillips Collection

Specifications: 
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Design: Sarah Gifford
Trim Size: 10 × 11 inches
Pages: 224
Images: 200+
Price: $55.00 (US)
ISBN: 978-0-8478-6891-9