Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934) is an American

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and

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known in particular for her depictions of

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s, especially her low-altitude and oblique

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s of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive,

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technique. She is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Biography

Jacquette grew up in

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and studied at the

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. She taught at

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and was a visiting artist at the

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from 1972 to 1976. She taught at

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from 1975 to 1978, and at the

from 1979 to 1984. Her three-part mural "Autumn Expression" (1980) is in the U.S. Post Office in

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. According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online bio, Ms. Jacquette has held various academic positions and was also honored by the

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in 1990. In an interview with art critic

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in ''

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'', Jacquette says of the way she came to begin painting aerial views: She married

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. She is a visiting artist at the Siena Art Institute. She lives in

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Work

As noted in ''The Female Gaze'', "Jacquette's works begin with direct studies made with pastel on paper or photographs taken from airplanes, skyscrapers, or rented single-engine planes. She often took flights primarily to study cloud formations and aerial perspectives. She has been described as the 'Canaletto of the skies.' Her paintings are intensely colored, elaborately detailed panoramas of cities, and the countryside at various day and night. Unique vies and radical angles draw attention to the act of perception, anthropomorphizing the buildings that occupy her urbanscapes."

Awards and commissions

2009 *Eric Isenbeurger Annual Prize + Samuel F. B. Morse Medal, 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2005 *Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2003 *Inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY 1999 *Mikhail and Ekaterna Shatalov Prize, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 1998 *Andrew Carnegie Prize for Painting, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 1998-97 *Guggenheim Foundation Grant for Painting 1994 *Print Commission, Business Committee for the Arts 1993 *Print Commission, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1990 *Painters Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 1988 *Elected into the

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1979-82 *Mural Commission, Federal Building and Post Office, Bangor, Maine, (G.S.A. Project) 1976 *

Ingram Merrill Award The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retriev ...

for Painting

Solo exhibitions

2010 *“Yvonne Jacquette, Aerials: Paintings, Prints, Pastels,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME *“Yvonne Jacquette,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2009-10 *“Yvonne Jacquette: The Complete Woodcuts, 1987–2009,” Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO. 2008 *“Picturing New York: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY *“Yvonne Jacquette,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2006 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Arrivals and Departures,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2005 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Works on Paper,” Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO 2003 *DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2002-03 *“Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette,”

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and

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Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 2000 *“Yvonne Jacquette - Evening: Chicago and New York,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 1998 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Maine Aerials,” Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME *“Paintings and Works on Paper by Yvonne Jacquette,” Hollins Art Gallery, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA 1997 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Vantage on High,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 1996 *“Yvonne Jacquette Frescoes,” Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME 1995 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Pastels, 1992-1994,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1992 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Frescoes, Monotypes, Pastels and Prints,”

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, New York, NY 1991 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Aerial Views, Rudy Burckhardt: Photographs,” Jewett Hall Gallery, The University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, ME *“Yvonne Jacquette,” Elizabeth Galasso Fine Art Leasing, Ossining, NY 1990 *“Drawings and Monotypes,” O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME *“Paintings, Frescoes, Pastels 1988-1990,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1988 *“Looking Down: Prints by Yvonne Jacquette,” Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Pastels: New York Triptychs,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1986 *“Yvonne Jacquette, Tokyo Nightviews,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME *“Yvonne Jacquette: Works on Paper,” Barbara Kraków Gallery, Boston, MA 1985 *“Yvonne Jacquette,” Yurakucho Seibu/Takanawa Art, Tokyo, Japan 1984 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 *“Currents 22. Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Drawings and Pastels,” St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO *“Yvonne Jacquette: Drawings and Pastels 1982-83,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1982 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Drawings,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1981 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Pastels,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1979 *“Yvonne Jacquette: The Night Paintings,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1976 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1974 *“Yvonne Jacquette: 22nd Street,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY *“Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings,” Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1972 *Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA *Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1971 *“Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Paintings,” Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1965 *Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Public collections

*American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY *Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR *Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY *Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME *The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY *The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH *Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME *The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA *The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH *Concordia College, Seward, NE *The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE *Farnsworth Museum & Library, Rockland, ME *Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL *Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY *Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC *Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA *Library of Congress, Washington, DC *The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX *The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY *Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL *Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN *Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA *Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Lucy Lippard Collection, Santa Fe, NM *The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY *Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY *New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA *The New York Historical Society, New York, NY *North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC *Ohio State University, Athens, OH *The

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at Penn State, University Park, PA *Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA *Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA *Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ *The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO *

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*Springfield Art Museum, Spring Field, MO *Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany *University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA *Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC *Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY *Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS *Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Sources

* Davenport, Ray
"Davenport's Art Reference and Price Guide, Gold Edition"
(

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, 2005) ; * 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) * Faberman, Hilarie

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) : Hudson Hills Press ; Stanford, Calif. : In Association with Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at

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, 2002 * Ratcliff, Carter
Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings, Frescoes, Pastels 1988-1990

, N.Y.:

;

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: John Berggruen Gallery, 1990. xhibition catalogue

References

Additional bibliography

*Yvonne Jacquette: EveningL Chicago & New York, 2000 (exhibition catalogue) http://www.dcmooregallery.com/publications/yvonne-jacquette-evening-chicago-and-new-york-2000 DC Moore Gallery, 2000 *Yvonne Jacquette: Arrivals and Departures, 2006 (exhibition catalogue) http://www.dcmooregallery.com/publications/yvonne-jacquette-arrivals-and-departures-2006 DC Moore Gallery, 2006 *Yvonne Jacquette, 2010 (exhibition catalogue) http://www.dcmooregallery.com/publications/yvonne-jacquette-2010 DC Moore Gallery, 2010

External links

DC Moore Gallery: Yvonne Jacquette

Askart.com page on Yvonne Jacquette

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco image base
page on Yvonne Jacquette

*The Brooklyn Rail, May 2006 "Yvonne Jacquette: Arrivals and Departures, DC Moore" http://images.dcmooregallery.com/www_dcmooregallery_com/Jacquette_THE_BROOKLYN_RAIL.jpg *The Brooklyn Rail, February 2008, "Yvonne Jacquette with John Yau" http://brooklynrail.org/2008/02/art/yvonne-jacquette-with-john-yau {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacquette, Yvonne 1934 births American women painters Cityscape artists American contemporary painters Landscape artists Living people Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Painters from Connecticut Rhode Island School of Design alumni Moore College of Art and Design faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty Parsons School of Design faculty Date of birth missing (living people) Artists from Stamford, Connecticut Artists from Pittsburgh Painters from Pennsylvania American women printmakers 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American printmakers 21st-century American women artists American women academics