20 Facts About Audrey Flack

Audrey Lenora Flack was an American visual artist.

Audrey Flack's work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.

In May 2015, Audrey Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she gave a commencement address.

Audrey Flack was an Honorary Vice President of the National Association of Women Artists.

Hitherto, the textbook Janson's History of Art did not mention a female artist; Audrey Flack was one of three living women added after Janson's death in the History of Art's 3rd edition in 1986.

Audrey Flack attended Cooper Union, then transferred to Yale College in 1952 to study fine arts with Josef Albers among others.

Audrey Flack earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University.

Audrey Flack studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Audrey Flack's move to the photorealist style was in part because she wanted her art to communicate to the viewer.

Audrey Flack was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966.

Audrey Flack claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and later gained much of her inspiration from Baroque art.

Audrey Flack's work is held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia.

Audrey Flack's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.

Audrey Flack is best known for her photorealist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting.

Audrey Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit.

Audrey Flack often brought in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' and Kennedy Motorcade.

Audrey Flack's sculpture is often overlooked in light of her better-known photorealist paintings.

Audrey Flack incorporated religion and mythology into her sculpture rather than the historical or everyday subjects of her paintings.

Audrey Flack died in Southampton, New York on June 28,2024, at the age of 93.

Audrey Flack was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Marcus.