Ann Chernow is an American artist who is known for her portrait-style illustrations that evoke the images of female cinematic figures of the 1930s and 1940s.
12 Facts About Ann Chernow
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Ann Chernow was exposed to several movies that left a lasting impression and prompted her to make the likenesses of leading ladies.
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In most of her works Ann Chernow avoids specificity, choosing instead to portray universal situations through figures who are inspired by film but reinterpreted to transcend stereotypes.
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Ann Chernow has worked extensively in the mediums of lithography, silkscreen, etching, and colored pencil.
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Ann Chernow's mother was an amateur singer and her father was a performing violinist, so she and her sisters received music and art lessons as children; Ann began at the age of five.
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Years after taking lessons with Trotta, Ann Chernow eventually entered the School of Fine Arts at Syracuse University in 1953, but transferred soon after to New York University, where she earned her Master of Arts degree in 1969.
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The couple divorced in 1969, when Ann Chernow was enrolled in graduate school.
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Burt Ann Chernow was an art historian and professor at Housatonic Community College, where he founded the Housatonic Museum of Art in 1967.
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Ann Chernow was the life partner of actor Martin West until his death on 31 Dec 2019.
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Ann Chernow subsequently dabbled in a variety of styles in the 1970s, including huge billboard paintings, sepia drawings of individual women and colored pencil drawings.
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Ann Chernow reached the height of her career with a number of evocative paintings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which depicted starlets of the 1930s and 1940s, as in Artist and Models.
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Ann Chernow aims to reveal the "unsentimental truth" in her art by showing an image that jogs a memory and brings about a nostalgia which her viewers can understand because they see something familiar.