Audrey Flack, Audrey Flack On Painting (hand signed, dated and inscribed by Audrey Flack), 1981

Audrey Flack

Audrey Flack On Painting (hand signed, dated and inscribed by Audrey Flack), 1981

Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed, dated and inscribed by Audrey Flack)

Signed and dated and warmly inscribed with blue ballpoint pen to the original recipient "with indelible memories"

10 × 10 1/2 × 3/4 inches

Unframed

Signed and dated Nov 19, 1983 and warmly inscribed with blue ballpoint pen to the original recipient "with indelible memories."

Book information:
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (January 1, 1981)
English; Hardcover; 116 pages with 112 illustrations, including 46 plates in full color

Publisher's blurb:
It is particular privilege to have a major artist describe her working methods, analyze her own motives, examine her emotional reactions, and give expression to her ideas about art. In this landmark volume we see Audrey Flack at work and we see the works themselves in progress, together with many superb reproductions of complete paintings.
Flack--a leading Photo-Realist and one of the world's foremost women artist--has achieved many distinctions. She is the first Photo-Realist to have had a work purchased by New York's Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection, and is the only Photo-Realist to be included in New York's four major museums.
Flack began as an Abstract Expressionist and gradually became committed to Realism and then to Photo-Realism. But she is a Photo-Realist with a difference, and that difference is her keen interest in the sources of human strength and the causes of human suffering, in beauty, in the issues of her own time. As a result, she has produced a body of work that is exceptionally rich in content and technique.
The use of the camera in Photo-Realism, more particularly as practiced by Audrey Flack, is explained in a special chapter, "Drawing with the Camera," by Jeanne Hamilton, the artist's photographic assistant.
Lawrence Alloway, art critic of The Nation, has contributed an Introduction in which he examines Flack's works from the art historian's point of view. He is Professor of Art History at the State University at Stony Brook, New York, and was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from 1962 to 1966. Ann Sutherland Harris, who provided the Foreword, teaches art history at the Juilliard School in New York. She has also held the Arthur Kittredge Watson Chair for Academic Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

More about Audrey Flack:
Audrey Flack is an internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor, and a pioneer of photorealism. Ms. Flack enjoys the distinction of being the first Photorealist painter whose work was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection. Among many major museums around the world, her work also resides in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Butler Institute of American Art, National Gallery of Australia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Additionally, she is the first woman artist, along with Mary Cassatt, to be included in Janson’s History of Art text.

Among her public commissions are Monumental Gateway to the City of Rock Hill in South Carolina, consisting of four twenty-foot high bronze figures on granite pedestals; Veritas et Justitia, a fifteen foot high figure of Justice for the Thirteenth Judicial Courthouse in Tampa, Florida; and Islandia, a nine-foot high bronze sculpture for the New York City Technical College in Brooklyn, New York. A major retrospective of her work organized by the J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky has traveled to museums around the country beginning in 1992.

Audrey Flack has taught and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. She was awarded the Augustus St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, was an honorary Albert Dorne Professor at Bridgeport University, and awarded an honorary professorship at George Washington University. There are numerous books on her work, including Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective, 1950-1990 by Thalia Gouma Peterson, published by the Abrams Publishing Company in New York. Audrey Flack is the author of three books, On Painting (Abrams 1986), The Daily Muse (Abrams 1989), and Art & Soul (Penguin USA 1991). She is currently in the process of writing a sequel to Art & Soul, as well as a memoir.

Ms. Flack earned a Graduate Certificate in Fine Arts from the Cooper Union in 1951. She also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University and attended New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. In May of 2015 she received an honorary Doctorate degree to Clarke University. Currently Audrey Flack lives and works both in East Hampton and in New York City.