Anna Held Audette

{{Short description|American artist and author (1938–2013)}}

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| birth_name = Anna Brita Held

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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1938}}

| birth_place = New York, New York

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|6|9|1938|mf=y}}

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| movement = Precisionism

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| website = {{URL|annaheldaudette.com}}

| alma_mater = Smith College, Yale School of Art

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Anna Held Audette (1938–2013){{cite web |title=Anna Held Audette |url=https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/anna-audette/ |website=Florence Griswold Museum |access-date=25 December 2024}} was an American painter, printmaker, and educator.

Audette née Held was born New York City in 1938.{{cite web |title=Anna Audette Obituary (2013) |url=https://www-legacy-com.translate.goog/us/obituaries/nhregister/name/anna-audette-obituary?id=9349371&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc |website=New Haven, CT - New Haven Register |access-date=25 December 2024 |language=de}} She was the daughter of art historian Julius S. Held.{{cite web |title=The Art of Anna Held Audette – APM |url=https://americanprecision.org/events/the-art-of-anna-held-audette/ |website=American Precision Museum |access-date=25 December 2024}} She attended Smith College and the Yale School of Art.

Audette taught art at the Southern Connecticut State University.{{cite web |title=Housatonic Museum of Art Presents Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age |url=https://news.housatonic.edu/museum-related-news/housatonic-museum-of-art-presents-anna-held-audette-requiem-for-the-industrial-age |website=Housatonic Museum of Art |access-date=25 December 2024 |language=en-gb}} She was the author of several books, including The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse (1993){{cite web |last1=Audette |first1=Anna Held |title=The blank canvas : inviting the muse |url=https://archive.org/details/blankcanvasinvit0000aude |publisher=Boston : Shambhala |access-date=26 December 2024 |date=1993}} and 100 Creative Drawing Ideas (2004).{{cite web |title=100 creative drawing ideas |url=https://archive.org/details/100creativedrawi0000unse |publisher=Boston : Shambhala |access-date=26 December 2024 |date=2004}}

Audette died on June 9, 2013.

Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Under Glass |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/813360 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=25 December 2024 |date=1979}} and the National Gallery of Art.{{cite web |title=Anna Held Audette |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.2932.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=25 December 2024}}

Posthumous exhibitions include Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age in 2014 at the Housatonic Museum of Art, The Art of Anna Held Audette in 2023 at the American Precision Museum, and Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette in 2023 at the Florence Griswold Museum.{{cite web |last1=Daigneault |first1=Ed |title=Eye of the beholder: Connecticut artist Anna Held Audette turns the mechanical into the beautiful |url=https://www.rep-am.com/life-arts/2023/12/02/eye-of-the-beholder/ |website=Republican-American |access-date=26 December 2024 |date=2 December 2023}}