Ann Craven
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine, 2019
112 pages, hardcover
11 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄4 inches
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Birds We Know is the catalog for Ann Craven’s
first exhibition in Maine (Center for Maine Contemporary Art)
of paintings by New York and Maine based artist Ann Craven
(born 1961). It was at her farm house in Lincolnville, Maine,
inspired by the colors of the natural environment, that Craven
completed her very first moon painting in 1995; she says her
time in Lincolnville “gave me my subject matter.” This catalog
includes the imagery that Craven is renowned for including her
lushly colored, mesmerizing moon and stripe paintings, but
here the birds dominate as the primary subject, including work
made between 1997 and 2019. The book includes an essay by
Christopher B. Crosman, formerly of the Crystal Bridges Museum
of American Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum.
