Anne Tabachnick
{{Short description|American expressionist painter (1927-1995)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|July 28, 1927}}
| birth_place = Derby, Connecticut, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|6|20|1927|07|28|mf=y}}
| death_place = New York, New York
| education = Hunter College, University of California, Berkeley, and New York University
| field = Painting
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| spouse = Dupont Newbro (divorced)
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Anne Tabachnick (1927 – June 20, 1995){{cite web |date=23 June 1995 |title=Anne Tabachnick, Figurative Artist, 67 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/23/obituaries/anne-tabachnick-figurative-artist-67.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130184808/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/23/obituaries/anne-tabachnick-figurative-artist-67.html |archive-date=30 January 2013 |access-date=20 May 2017 |website=The New York Times |publisher=}} was an American expressionist painter whose style drew inspiration from Abstract Expressionism and the European tradition.{{Cite book |last=Sawin |first=Martica |title=Anne Tabachnick: A Memorial Exhibition |publisher=Snyder Fine Art and Walton Arts Center |year=1996 |location=New York, NY and Fayetteville, AR |pages=23 |language=en |oclc=35049683}}
Biography
Born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Derby, Connecticut,{{cite web |last1=Tabachnick |first1=Anne |date=2015 |title=Anne Tabachnick: Object as Muse |url=https://www.booksteinprojects.com/archive/anne-tabachnick-object-as-muse/selected-works?view=thumbnails |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925070006/https://www.booksteinprojects.com/archive/anne-tabachnick-object-as-muse/selected-works?view=thumbnails |archive-date=25 September 2023 |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=Bookstein Projects |publisher=Lori Bookstein Fine Arts}} Anne Tabachnick spent most of her life living and working in New York City. Her father, Abraham Ber Tabachnick, was a prominent Yiddish literary critic and poet, and a news editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |date=16 June 1970 |title=A.B. Tabachnick, 68, Writer and Critic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63873230/obituary-for-a-b-tabachnik-aged-68/?xid=865 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240204212629/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkshire-eagle-obituary-for-a-b-t/63873230/ |archive-date=4 February 2024 |access-date=18 December 2020 |work=The Berkshire Eagle |location=Pittsfield, MA |page=47 |via=Newspapers.com}} She attended Hunter College, earning a B.A. in anthropology and art, and pursued graduate studies in art at the University of California, Berkeley (1951). After studying briefly with painter Nell Blaine, Tabachnick was awarded a scholarship from the Hans Hofmann School in New York City and Provincetown from February 1946 to August 1950. Tabachnick also studied with William Baziotes in 1961.{{Cite web |title=Anne Tabachnick - Biography 1927–1995 |url=http://www.figurativeexpressionism.com/tabachnick.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011105824/http://www.figurativeexpressionism.com/tabachnick.htm |archive-date=11 October 2008 |access-date=20 April 2017 |website=Figurative Expressionism}}{{Cite journal |last=Maine |first=Stephen |date=1 March 2006 |title=Anne Tabachnick at Lori Bookstein |journal=Art in America |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=154 |issn=0004-3214}}
Work
Belonging to the New York School, her work was frequently figurative. Tabachnick used thin applied areas of acrylic through which strokes of charcoal defined the subject matter of still life, landscape and figures. Tabachnick drew inspiration from what she called “The Grand Tradition” of European Masters; especially El Greco, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse.{{Cite web |last=Kingsley |first=April |date=17 November 2000 |title=Anne Tabachnick: Learning from the Past |url=http://www.loribooksteinfineart.com/page.php?pt=3&xid=51 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827204836/http://www.loribooksteinfineart.com/page.php?pt=3&xid=51 |archive-date=27 August 2007 |access-date=20 April 2017 |website=Lori Bookstein Fine Art}} She also drew inspiration from East Asian calligraphy painting.
A self-described lyrical expressionist, Tabachnick was associated with Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Jane Freilicher, Larry Rivers, Bob Thompson, and Robert De Niro, Sr.{{Cite web |last=Wilkin |first=Karen |date=2021 |title=Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970 |url=https://www.dcmooregallery.com/museum-exhibitions/figuration-never-died-new-york-painterly-painting-1950-1970 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001164724/https://www.dcmooregallery.com/museum-exhibitions/figuration-never-died-new-york-painterly-painting-1950-1970 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |access-date=4 February 2024 |website=DC Moore Gallery}}
Along with some two dozen solo shows, Anne Tabachnick's many honors and awards include the Longview Foundation Award (1960), grants from Radcliffe's Bunting Institute (1967 and 1969), grants from the Creative Artists Program (1975 and 1978), the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (1982) and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1983). In 1985, Tabachnick was appointed artist in residence at Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic and received numerous invitations to the MacDowell and Yaddo art colonies. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy of Design, the Hyde Collection (in a one-person show) and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe.{{Cite web |date= |title=Artist Info: Anne Tabachnick |url=https://daytonart.emuseum.com/people/191/anne-tabachnick/objects#info |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204223852/https://daytonart.emuseum.com/people/191/anne-tabachnick/objects#info |archive-date=4 February 2024 |access-date=4 February 2024 |website=Dayton Art Institute}} In 2015, Lori Bookstein Fine Art hosted a solo exhibit, Anne Tabachnick: Object as Muse, their fifth solo show of Tabachnick's work.{{Cite web |last=Keane |first=Tim |date=31 January 2015 |title=Enigmas of the Visible: Paintings by Anne Tabachnick |url=http://hyperallergic.com/178124/enigmas-of-the-visible-paintings-by-anne-tabachnick/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929074354/https://hyperallergic.com/178124/enigmas-of-the-visible-paintings-by-anne-tabachnick/ |archive-date=29 September 2023 |access-date=4 February 2024 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}
See also
References
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External links
- Kingsley, April [https://web.archive.org/web/20070827204836/http://www.loribooksteinfineart.com/page.php?pt=3&xid=51 "Anne Tabachnick: Learning from the Past"]
- Ask Art [http://www.askart.com/askart/t/anne_tabachnick/anne_tabachnick.aspx "Anne Tabachnick (1933 - 1995)"]
- Mullarkey, Maureen [http://www.maureenmullarkey.com/essays/tabachnick.html "Painting About Paintings"]
- Figurative Expressionism [https://web.archive.org/web/20081011105824/http://www.figurativeexpressionism.com/tabachnick.htm "Anne Tabachnick"]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/23/obituaries/anne-tabachnick-figurative-artist-67.html Obituary - The New York Times]
- Preston, George Nelson, "Against the Grain:The Paintings of Anne Tabachnick," Arts Magazine, 53: February 1979, pp. 154–155.
- Photos from [http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/restein_tabachnick/ Anne Tabachnick: A Memorial Exhibition (1927-1995)]
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Category:20th-century American painters