Letter from Audrey Flack to Barbara Morris

Item — Box: LIB-MS 1

Identifier: LIB-MS-014

Staff Only

Audrey Flack writes to Barbara Morris thanking Barbara for asking about her participating in a seminar at Rockford College in 1989. Barbara Morris was a graduate of Lawrence University, 1956. At the time of the letter, Barbara Morris was the Gallery Director at Rockford College. Letter including envelope.

Dates

August 1989

Creator

Flack, Audrey (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Lawrence University does not hold the copyright for all materials in this collection. Uses beyond those allowed for fair use under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) require the researcher to secure permission from the copyright holder.

Extent

1 items : 1 page, and an envelope. ; 26 x 18, folded to 9 x 18 cm

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Audrey Flack was an internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor, and a pioneer of photorealism. Ms. Flack enjoyed the distinction of being the first Photorealist painter whose work was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection. Additionally, she was the first woman artist, along with Mary Cassatt, to be included in Janson's History of Art text. Audrey Flack has taught and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. She has numerous books on her work, including Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective, 1950-1990 by Thalia Gouma Peterson, published by the Abrams Publishing Company in New York. Audrey Flack is the author of three books, On Painting (Abrams 1986), The Daily Muse (Abrams 1989), and Art and Soul (Penguin USA 1991). Her additional memoir, With Darkness Comes Stars was published just before she died in 2024.Ms. Flack earned a Graduate Certificate in Fine Arts from the Cooper Union in 1951. She also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University and attended New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. In May of 2015 she received an honorary Doctorate degree to Clarke University. She died in Southampton, New York, 2024.