An engaging conversation with Bascove, who will share thoughts on her art, career, and lifelong love of literature with author, art director, and illustration/graphic design historian Steve Heller.
Tickets: $10, free for members
A. Bascove is a NYC-based collagist, painter, and printmaker. Born in Philadelphia, she received her B.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art. In Paris, living by the Seine, she started drawing bridges, an obsession that only intensified on her return to NYC. “From an early age I learned that the world only makes sense to me through art. My love of my City and fascination with science, architecture, and literature has always driven my explorations. I love to share that curiosity and exhilaration through my work.” She has lectured and arranged events with the Museum of the City of New York, the Arsenal in Central Park, the Central Park Conservancy, the Municipal Art Society, New York University’s Fales Library, and the Hudson River Museum. Three collections of her paintings have been published: Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover’s Anthology of Sensuality and Humor, Where Books Fall Open: A Reader’s Anthology of Wit And Passion, and Stone and Steel: Paintings & Writings Celebrating the Bridges of New York City. Her political and literary work is in the Permanent Collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum. As a culture writer, she has contributed to Arte Fuse, Stay Thirsty, and New York Arts Magazine. Chosen by the US State Department’s Art in Embassies Cultural Exchange, her work was exhibited at the American Embassies of Sofia, Bulgaria and Muscat, Oman from 2016-2019.
For thirty-three years, Steven Heller was an art director at the New York Times. Currently, he is co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at the School of Visual Arts, and has written contributed hundreds of articles, critical essays, and columns for a score of design and culture journals. He is editor at large on Printmag.com and has contributed insightful commentary for many exhibitions and programs at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
BASCOVE: The Time We Spend with Words
Permanent Collection Highlight Exhibition
March 12 through June 5, 2022
Known by the mononym, Bascove, Anne Bascove is a master printmaker, illustrator, painter, and collagist best known for her striking woodcut book jacket and magazine illustrations as well as for her series of paintings and drawings of the bridges of New York City. Inspired by the written word throughout her life, she has been a preeminent designer of book jackets that have engaged readers with the writings of many noted authors, including Alice Walker, Robertson Davies, Jerome Charyn, T.C. Boyle, and J.M. Coetzee. This exhibition will feature original illustrations from the Museum’s permanent collection of Bascove’s art for some of the most significant literary works of our time.