Yvonne Jacquette (American, b. 1934) is a painter and printmaker celebrated for her aerial landscapes and Pointillist-like technique. Inspired by the view out of her window during a flight to San Diego in 1969, Jacquette began flying commercial airlines frequently in order to sketch and study landscapes and cloud formations. A frequent depiction in her work is night views of New York City, for which she began chartering planes out of New Jersey in the 1980–90s to get the views she desired.
Jacquette’s work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. Galleries representing her work include DC Moore Gallery, Crown Point Press, Mark Ryan Gallery, and more. In 2003, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She lives in New York, NY.
