Anne Dunn
TOMATO WITH MELON AND RIND, 2003
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VEGETABLES AND TURTLE II, 2003 |
TREE ON ISLAND, NB, 1994 |
FLOWERS, FALL, 1990
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APPLE TREES NIGADOO II (NB), 1989 |
APPLE TREE III (NB), 2002
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APPLE TREE (NB), 1989 |
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ST. ESTEVE, PROVENCE II, 1987
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ST. ESTEVE, PROVENCE I, 1987 |
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MARINA, YOUGHALL (NB), 1987
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SPRING, PROVENCE, 1987 |
SUBMERGED LOG III, (NB) 1994 |
SUNBATHERS YOUGHALL (NB), 1987 |
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FROWNING HOUSE, YOUGHALL (NB), 1987 |
TRAILER, YOUGHALL (NB), 1987
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CHERRY TREES, ST. ESTEVE, 1987 |
FRUIT TREE BY LAKE I, (NB) 1994 |
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APPLE TREE I (NB), 1994
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UNTITLED, NB, 2002 "Ms. Dunn...submits her greater accumulation of detail to a washy, swirling gestalt with a poetic, exalted sense of space, touch and colour." - David Cohen, The New York Sun, August 2005
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LAGOON IV, NB, 1994
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APPLE TREE BY LAKE (NB), 2002 |
UNTITLED (PROVENCE), 1987
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LAKE II (NB), 1994 |
SUBMERGED LOG II (NB), 1994
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LA COURNIERE, 1975 |
VEGETATION NEW BRUNSWICK II, 1980
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FLOWERS ON A SHELF, 1992
STILL LIFE WITH POTTED ORANGE II (PROVENCE)
FALL FLOWERS I (NB), 2003
SUMMER FLOWERS III, 2007 |
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STRAW FLOWERS AND GLASS, 1996
SUMMER BERRIES III, 2008
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SWEET PEAS I, 2003 |
SWEET PEAS II, 2003 |
STUDY - LAKE NIGADOO VI, 1996 |
STUDY - LAKE NIGADOO IV, 1996
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WATERWORLD I, 2003
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TOMATO, MELON AND PEPPER, 2003
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TOMATO AND TURTLE, 2003 |
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MOLINE CROSS WITH LEMONS (1996)
WINDOWSILL, 1999-2000
SUNFLOWER I
MOOSEHEAD, 2003
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PUMPKIN AND ONIONS I, 2002
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PUMPKIN AND ONIONS IV, 2002 |
Anne Dunn was born in London. The artist spent her childhood, and received her early education in Canada and England. Anne began her art studies at the Chelsea School of Art under Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore, continuing at the Anglo-French Art Centre in London with Fernand Léger and the Academie Julien in Paris. Anne had her first solo exhibition in London in 1957 and has had many successful solo and group exhibitions in London, Paris and New York, accompanied by consistently favourable reviews in Art in America, Burlington Magazine, Art World and the New York Times. Her work is included in prestigious collections in Europe and North America. In New Brunswick her work is included in the collections of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Provincial Art Bank, the University of New Brunswick and the Harriet Irving Library. Nearly thirty years ago Anne had her first exhibition at Gallery 78. Happily for us Anne returns annually to northern New Brunswick, the land she has visited since childhood. It is home that matters the most to Anne. And this means New Brunswick. “It ties up with the fact of wanting to be part of something one has come out of” explains Anne, “this is the definition of home in the true sense.” The subject of New Brunswick landscape represents the familiar images of Anne Dunn's paintings. However, the gestural brush, or pen and pencil markings and washes of colors are less concerned with the details of representation than with an orchestration of airy atmospheric effects and sensuous responses that take the form of droopy tangled webs and scattered jottings. Forces and forms of life and death intermingle in the vegetation of her forests and flowers, backlit with an eerie acidic palette or simply strung on lines and shapes on white paper. " Anne Dunn is one of the most tenacious draftsmen around, and as she knows what to put in or leave out, we end up knowing that chill clear neck of the woods as well as if we lived there ourselves." " ...These somewhat mysterious drawings project an air that is both sensuous and ascetic." " ...for Anne Dunn drawing is a satisfying expression of itself. She relies on simplicity to imply the complexities of things." " A true painter is on hand here, and one who could trust herself to work with emptiness." "Dunn's work comes as a gift to an art world beleagered by trash. It is not precious, but it is extremely valuable, in its summation of things the way they were, are and still can be - if only the right artist sets her sights on them." |
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