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Audrey Flack

Audrey Flack was an artist who drew upon personal, feminist, social, and historical subject matter across various mediums and styles, including abstract and figurative painting, photorealism, sculpture, and what she termed “Post Pop Baroque.”

Flack attended the High School of Music & Art and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City before receiving a BFA from Yale University in 1952. On returning to New York City, she studied anatomy at the Art Students League of New York and art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, developing a lasting interest in historical Western art and its ability to communicate with viewers. During the 1950s, Flack’s early abstract paintings began to incorporate figurative elements, such as in Lady with a Pink (1952, SAAM).

While navigating the demands of young motherhood in the early 1960s, she started painting from photojournalistic sources, addressing current events like President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, mourners grieving Kennedy, and the death of boxer Da

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Audrey Flack

American artist (1931–2024)

Audrey Lenora Flack (May 30, 1931 – June 28, 2024) was an American visual artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.

Flack had numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doctoral degree from Cooper Union in New York City. Additionally she had a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and attended New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she studied art history. In May 2015, Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she gave a commencement address.

Flack's work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack's photorealistic paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many America

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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 Gatewayto 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 Brookly