Yvonne Jacquette
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Yvonne Jacquette (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934), 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.
According to askart.com and artcyclopedia.com, her works are in the collections of the 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, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and others. 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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[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] 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]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum page (one of several) on Yvonne Jacquette [includes color images of some works]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters page recording the 1990 award as well as purchases of four Jacquette artworks for the Academy's collection, in 1981, 1984, 1989, and 1999.
