Yvonne Jacquette (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934), is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillist technique.
Her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and others. Her three-part mural “Autumn Expression” (1980) is in the U.S. Post Office in Bangor, Maine. Ms. Jacquette has held various academic positions and was also honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990.
Jacquette, Yvonne
Yvonne Jacquette (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934), is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillist technique.
Her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and others. Her three-part mural “Autumn Expression” (1980) is in the U.S. Post Office in Bangor, Maine. Ms. Jacquette has held various academic positions and was also honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990.