Yvonne Jacquette
| Yvonne Jacquette | |
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| Born | 1934 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painting |
Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique.
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[edit] Life
She grew up in Stamford, Connecticut.[1] She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. She taught at Moore College of Art, and was a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1976. She taught at Parsons School of Design from 1975 to 1978, and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1984.[2] She married Rudy Burckhardt.[3] She is visiting artist at the Siena Art Institute.[4] She lives in New York City.[5]
Her works are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum,[6] Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[7] the Smith College Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and others. Her three-part mural "Autumn Expression" (1980) is in the U.S. Post Office in Bangor, Maine. According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online bio, Ms. Jacquette has held various academic positions and was also honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990.
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[edit] Sources
[Please note: for the researcher's convenience, these book titles have been externally linked to their Worldcat listings]
- Davenport, Ray, "Davenport's Art Reference and Price Guide, Gold Edition" (Ventura, California, 2005) ISSN 1540-1553; OCLC 18196910
- Dreikausen, Margret, "Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art" (Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ; London, England; Mississauga, Ontario: 1985) ISBN 0-87982-040-3
- Faberman, Hilarie, "Aerial Muse : The Art of Yvonne Jacquette" (New York : Hudson Hills Press ; Stanford, Calif. : In Association with Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2002] ISBN 1-55595-157-0
- Ratcliff, Carter, Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings, Frescoes, Pastels 1988-1990, New York, N.Y. : Brooke Alexander ; San Francisco : John Berggruen Gallery, 1990. OCLC: 23266806 [exhibition catalogue]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ifpda.org/content/node/1145
- ^ http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/monotypes/jacquettebio.html
- ^ Karen Rosenberg (February 1, 2008). "Views of the City, His and Hers, With Lens and Brush". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01pict.html.
- ^ http://www.sienaart.org/yvonne-jacquette.html
- ^ http://www.sharksink.com/artists.asp?artists=21
- ^ http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4857/East_River_View_with_Brooklyn_Bridge
- ^ http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=11286
[edit] External links
- Askart.com page on Yvonne Jacquette
- Artcyclopedia.com page on Yvonne Jacquette
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco image base page on Yvonne Jacquette [includes color images of some works]
- Stewart & Stewart
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