Anne Dunn

Anne Dunn (born September 4, 1929) is a United Kingdom artist.

Born in London, England, she is the daughter of Sir James Dunn and his second wife, Irene Clarice Richards. Dunn studied in London at Chelsea School of Art (1949-50) and at the Anglo-French Centre(1952) under Henry Moore and guest artist Fernand Leger before going to the Academie Julian in Paris, France in 1952.

Dunn made France and New York City her home, but spends parts of her summers at a retreat on the Nigadoo River near Bathurst, New Brunswick.

Her works have been exhibited in Europe and New York City and can be seen at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick and the Arts Council Collection in London and many private collections. Her first solo show was at the Leicester Galleries, London, 1957 with subsequent shows there in 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1964. Thereafter her major exhibitions took place in New York with shows at the Fischbach Gallery in 1967, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989.

In 1990 she had a solo show at the Christopher Hull Gallery in London. Richard Shone wrote in the catalogue: 'Call these paintings landscapes if you must, fragments of nature. But Dunn is no 'impressionist', relating her findings with a nice exactitude of representation (though that is there too). Nor is she part of that tradition of landscape-abstraction, tightroping between 'pure' painting and the flora and fauna of the place itself. She needs the subject but needs the painting more. This is most clearly seen in the spectrum of her 'unreal' colour which, descriptive to a point, transcends the motif, is defiantly not its portrait.'

Her most recent solo show was in 2005 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.

Her close friendships with poets resulted in illustrations for books by John Ashbery, William Corbett, Barbara Guest and James Schuyler.

From 1964-68 she edited the journal Art and Literature with Rodrigo Moynihan, Sonia Orwell and John Ashbery.

A taped interview with the artist can be consulted. It is part of the National Life Story Collection, National Sound Archive at the British Library.

She was married to the artists Michael Wishart and Rodrigo Moynihan. She has two sons, both artists, Francis Wishart and Danny Moynihan.

She has been painted and drawn by many fellow artists including Joe Brainard, Lucien Freud and Rodrigo Moynihan.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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