Ralph Avery

Avery studied at the Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology, and the Tiffany Foundation, Oyster Bay, New York. His media of specializaition was watercolor, the classification of his Academy membership. Among his awards were two from the American Watercolor Society and two from the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester. Much of his career was devoted rendering in watercolor views of the historic downtown district of the city of Rochester. Several of his watercolor paintings were used as cover illustrations for the Reader's Digest.