Anne Appleby at the Tacoma Art Museum
Painting Deconstructed: Selections from the Northwest Collection at the Tacoma Art Museum features Anne Appleby’s four-panel painting, Early Rose, 2005. This 98 x 98 inch oil and wax on canvas painting was acquired for the museum with funds from Rebecca and Alexander Stewart.
“Painting Deconstructed takes a deep dive into the art of painting by focusing on the core components that come together to create a finished image. Painting is one of the most popular and familiar art forms, first appearing over 40,000 years ago, but artists continue to find new ways to combine the basic elements into uniquely personal expressions.
The exhibition is divided into four sections that focus on key aspects of painting: medium and support, composition, color, and technique. The examples in each section offer both well-known and unusual variations. Together they provide one approach among many to interpreting works of art.
The Northwest is home to a diverse and multi-talented group of painters, a number of whom are spotlighted here. All of the artworks on view are by Black and Indigenous artists, artists of color, and women artists. They were selected from Tacoma Art Museum’s collection of more than 700 Northwest paintings.”
Anne Appleby
Early Rose, 2005
oil and wax on canvas
98 x 98 inches
Collection of the Tacoma Art Museum
About Anne Appleby
Anne Appleby
Quaking Aspen, 2012
color aquatint with burnishing
image size: 18 x 18”; paper size: 30 ¼ x 29 ¼”
Edition of 20, Artist Proof
Anne Appleby was born in 1954 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and moved to Montana at age 17. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977 from the University of Montana and embarked on a 15-year apprenticeship with an Ojibwe elder, learning to patiently and deeply observe nature. Appleby would watch and then translate into color the cycles of leaves, stems, buds, fruit, and seeds, transforming nature’s fluid evolution into two-dimensional portraits.
Appleby received her Master of Fine Arts in 1989 from the San Francisco Art Institute and has since exhibited her paintings internationally to high acclaim. She has had solo exhibitions at the Tacoma Art Museum, 2018, the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Kansas, 2011, the Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany, 2010, and the Boise Art Museum, 2000. In 2007 the artist was featured at the Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy, which commissioned a permanent major painting installation. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Denver Museum of Art, the Museo d’ARTE Moderna e Contemporea, and numerous other public and private institutions.
Anne Appleby has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Western Arts Federation, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; in addition, she is the recipient of the SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art, the David S. McMillan Award from the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Northwest Biennial from the Portland Art Museum.
