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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Paper Company, Somerset, Maine II, 1989
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Painter-printmaker Yvonne Jacquette was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934, growing up in Stamford, Connecticut. She studied with Robert Hamilton, Robert Roche, Herman Cherry and John Frazier during four years (1952-1956) at the Rhode Island School of Design* in Providence.
Perhaps best known for her aerial panoramic vistas of cities at night, Jacquette has also illustrated books of poetry and been a set designer. Her teaching experience includes the Moore College of Art* in Philadelphia, 1972, visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972-1976; Parsons School of Design* in New York City, 1975-1978; again at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979-1982; and Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1979-1984. Jacquette has been a visiting critic at the Graduate School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts* since 1991.
Most of Jacquette's paintings, prints and pastels evolve from pastel studies actually drawn high in the air from city rooftops, jet airplanes or rented single-engine planes. Some pieces show urban lights sprinkled far below like stars and constellations fallen to earth. Other paintings are closer to the city with signs blazing just above the traffic. Recent works have incorporated the wing of the aircraft from which the view is seen.
Her work is in the collections of the major museums of New York City: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C. and Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Among Yvonne Jacquette's many exhibitions are:
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York City, 1976, 1979, 1981-1983, 1986, 1988, 1991
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1990
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989
Syracuse University, New York, 1988
Museum of Modern Art, 1984
Brooklyn Museum, 1983
She lives in New York City and Searsmont, Maine.
Sources:
Jules and Nancy Heller, North American Women Artists of the 20th Century
and internet
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/monotypes/jacquettebio.html
* For more in-depth information about these terms and others, see AskART.com Glossary http://www.askart.com/AskART/lists/Art_Definition.aspx
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