Anna Held Audette

Anna Held Audette
Born
Anna Brita Held

1938 (1938)
New York, New York
DiedJune 9, 2013(2013-06-09) (aged 74–75)
Alma materSmith College, Yale School of Art
MovementPrecisionism
Websiteannaheldaudette.com

Anna Held Audette (1938–2013)[1] was an American painter, printmaker, and educator.

Audette née Held was born New York City in 1938.[2] She was the daughter of art historian Julius S. Held.[3] She attended Smith College and the Yale School of Art.[2]

Audette taught art at the Southern Connecticut State University.[4] She was the author of several books, including The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse (1993)[5] and 100 Creative Drawing Ideas (2004).[6]

Audette died on June 9, 2013.[2]

Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] and the National Gallery of Art.[8]

Posthumous exhibitions include Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age in 2014 at the Housatonic Museum of Art,[4] The Art of Anna Held Audette in 2023 at the American Precision Museum,[3] and Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette in 2023 at the Florence Griswold Museum.[1][9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Anna Held Audette". Florence Griswold Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Anna Audette Obituary (2013)". New Haven, CT - New Haven Register (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b "The Art of Anna Held Audette – APM". American Precision Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Housatonic Museum of Art Presents Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age". Housatonic Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  5. ^ Audette, Anna Held (1993). "The blank canvas : inviting the muse". Boston : Shambhala. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  6. ^ "100 creative drawing ideas". Boston : Shambhala. 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Under Glass". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  8. ^ 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.