Discipline: Visual Art

Anne Tabachnick

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1987

Anne Tabachnick (1927–1995) was an American expressionist painter whose style drew inspiration from Abstract Expressionism and the European tradition. Belonging to the New York School, her work was frequently figurative. Tabachnick used thin applied areas of acrylic through which strokes of charcoal defined the subject matter of still life, landscape, and figures. Tabachnick drew inspiration from what she called “The Grand Tradition” of European Masters; especially El Greco, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse. She also drew inspiration from East Asian calligraphy painting.

Studios

New Hampshire

Anne Tabachnick worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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