Following is an exhibition review by Karen Schafer, Gazette.Net, Maryland. September 9, 2008.

Painter March Avery may be the daughter of one of America's most respected artists, the late Milton Avery, but he never gave her a single art lesson. She learned early it was best to stay clear of her dad's famous but fussy artist friends. When tough nuts like Mark Rothko, Adolf Gottlieb, Barnett Newman and Marsden Hartley came a calling at Avery's Greenwich Village apartment, she kept mostly out of sight.

Asked if she received a morsel of advice or encouragement from some of the 20th century's most important contemporary artists, Avery bursts out laughing.

"Artists don't like to talk about anything but their own a...