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Audrey Flack
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1979

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Time to Save From: 12 Photographs: 1973-1983, Plate 8 of 12 Dye transfer photograph, 1979 Signed in ink Edition: 50, this example an Artist's Proof (7/10) Printer: Guy Stricherz Publisher: Prestige Art Ltd, 1984 Condition: Mint Image size: 20 x 18 1/2 inches Sheet size: 24 x 20 inches Frame size: 27 x 25 1/2 inches Note: “One of the first photorealist painters to be included in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, Audrey Flack focused the early years of her career on large-scale paintings of still lifes that drew from 17th-century Dutch vanitas painting—updated through a contemporary lens—and brought feminine identities under scrutiny. In meticulous, complex arrangements of fruit, flowers, candles, makeup, and ladies’ accouterments, Flack’s loaded symbolic tableaus address stereotypes of the female ideal. Since the 1980s, Flack has turned her focus to monumental sculpture: “Making sculpture attracted me because of its substantiality,” she has said. In her Neoclassical public sculptures of gilded bronze angels, muses, and goddesses, Flack mines Greek mythology, presenting the female in an array of archetypal guises. Though some critics have condemned her focus on the classical white female, Flack is an avowed feminist, and many of her sculptures seek to reinvent their subjects and source material.“ Courtesy of Artsy A pioneer of Photorealism and a nationally recognized painter and sculptor, Ms. Flack's work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Museum of Art in Canberra, Australia. She was the first photorealist painter to have work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art. Public Collections (Partial) ` Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas University of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC HHK Foundation for Contemporary Art, Inc., New York, New York Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco, California National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut Capricorn Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC New York University Collections, New York, New York Reynolda House Museum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, Kentucky Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington North Carolina The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa Florida.
  • Creator:
    Audrey Flack (1931, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1979
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Fairlawn, OH
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FA10779_81stDibs: LU14014117092
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