Yvonne Jacquette often depicted our urban world from a vantage point high above us. From her perch, she brought order and context to the crazy world we have made. Neon signs, strings of cars on dark highways, bright lit windows viewed from the top of a skyscraper or from an airplane window become the dashes of color Jacquette used to describe light and space in her paintings and prints.
Jacquette also created compelling images of the landscape and the sea from the air or atop hills or mountains. She made her last lithograph at Shark’s in 2019 “The River at Belfast, Maine”. In this colorful print the artist portrays a view of the Passagassawakeag River which flows into Belfast Bay. Boats fill the bay on a sunny day and in the background, cottages emerge from a lush deep-green landscape.
Yvonne Jacquette received the Painters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990. She is represented in many public collections including The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Staatliche Museum, Berlin, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
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