Anna Held Audette | |
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Born | Anna Brita Held 1938 (1938) New York, New York |
Died | June 9, 2013(2013-06-09) (aged 74–75) |
Alma mater | Smith College, Yale School of Art |
Movement | Precisionism |
Website | annaheldaudette |
Anna Held Audette (1938–2013) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator.
Audette née Held was born New York City in 1938. She was the daughter of art historian Julius S. Held. She attended Smith College and the Yale School of Art.
Audette taught art at the Southern Connecticut State University. She was the author of several books, including The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse (1993) and 100 Creative Drawing Ideas (2004).
Audette died on June 9, 2013.
Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art.
Posthumous exhibitions include Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age in 2014 at the Housatonic Museum of Art, The Art of Anna Held Audette in 2023 at the American Precision Museum, and Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette in 2023 at the Florence Griswold Museum.
References
- ^ "Anna Held Audette". Florence Griswold Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- ^ "Anna Audette Obituary (2013)". New Haven, CT - New Haven Register (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- ^ "The Art of Anna Held Audette – APM". American Precision Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- ^ "Housatonic Museum of Art Presents Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age". Housatonic Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- Audette, Anna Held (1993). "The blank canvas : inviting the muse". Boston : Shambhala. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
- "100 creative drawing ideas". Boston : Shambhala. 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
- "Under Glass". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- "Anna Held Audette". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- Daigneault, Ed (2 December 2023). "Eye of the beholder: Connecticut artist Anna Held Audette turns the mechanical into the beautiful". Republican-American. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
External links
- Anna Held Audette, in Tribute by Janet Maher