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ANNA HELD AUDETTE

American, 1938-2013

"Scrap Metal VIII", 1992

oil on canvas
signed and dated lower right "Anna Held Audette © 1992", signed and titled on the stretcher
28 1/2 x 61 in. (72.4 x 154.9 cm.), Frame: 30 x 62 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. (76.2 x 158.8 x 4.4 cm.)

  • Provenance: The artist; Private Collection, Connecticut
  • Exhibited: Washington Depot, Connecticut, Washington Art Association, "Urban Landscapes", May 18 - June 16, 2013
  • Notes: Known for her monumental, polychrome paintings of industrial ruins, Anna Held Audette was an American precisionist in the tradition of Charles Scheeler, Walter Murch and Charles Demuth. Using color, form and scale to dramatic effect, Audette portrayed time and neglect on abandoned scrap yards, aircraft, ships, trains, factories and machinery.

    Early in her career, Audette focused on drawings and printmaking. It was only later, in middle age, that Audette embraced painting. Yet even as her preferred media changed over time, Audette consistently explored form and deconstruction. Across a wide variety of subject matter, from the human form to heavy machinery, these underlying themes remained evident throughout Audette's vast body of work.

    Today Audette's paintings, prints and drawings can be found in private collections as well as museums, such as The National Gallery of Art, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Museo de Arte de Ponce, The Yale University Art Gallery and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her works vary across subject matter, scale and medium, but they share a common thread; in Audette's words, "they form a visual requiem for the industrial age."

    Tags: woman artist, oil painting, listed artist, 20th century, modern / contemporary, industrial
  • Condition: in very good original condition, very minor crazing in two places

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