Ralph Avery - Rochester

Rochester

"....I walk the streets of Rochester and get inspiration daily." - Ralph Avery. "I'm a real downtowner...I like to be right around the corner from where things are happening" - Ralph Avery. When Avery first came to this region, he entered a Finger Lakes Competition and was voted “most popular” and became the first recipient of the Rumrill-Hoyt Award. Ralph Avery’s paintings were mainly of Rochester and the Corn Hill area. There is a section of Corn Hill dedicated in his memory called the Ralph Avery Mall. This mall is a tribute to Avery’s illustrations and paintings done in the Rochester area. Ralph Avery found beauty in Rochester's dreary weather that most people complain about. To him, there was something beautiful about Rochester rain and snow. A close friend, Mrs. Vera Fogg, described Avery when she said, "He saw beauty in the city all the time." He appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Avery's artwork appeared on the cover of Readers Digest fourteen times. Ralph Avery resided at the Daughters of the American Revolution house on Livingston Park, and his studio was located at 60 North Fitzhugh Street in Rochester,