Night Wing: Metropolitan Area Composite II

Artist Yvonne Jacquette American, 1934–2023

Date1993

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions80 5/8 x 56 3/4 in. (204.8 x 144.1 cm)
Frame: 81 5/8 x 58 x 2 3/4 in. (207.3 x 147.3 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number94.2

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New York, 1993; collection of the artist; [Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York]; sold to NCMA, 1994.

Published ReferencesHuston Paschal, New York, New York: Recent Cityscapes (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1994), cat. no. 11, illus. (color).

Huston Paschal, "New York, New York: Recent Cityscapes," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1994), discussed 9, illus. (b-w).

"New York, New York: Recent Cityscapes." North Carolina Museum of Art magazine supplement to the Durham, NC Herald-Sun (Autumn 1994), 8-9, 14, discussed 14, illus (color) 8 and cover.

"New York, N.Y. comes to Raleigh, N.C.," North Carolina Beacon (September 29, 1994), 10-11, illus. 11.

Chuck Twardy, "Apple of the Eye," Raleigh: The News & Observer (October 9, 1994), 3G.

Max Halperen, "Bright Lights, Dark Shadows, ...." Raleigh: Spectator (October 13, 1994), discussed 11.

Melissa Clement, "Cityscapes," Fayetteville, NC: Fayetteville Observer-Times (October 23, 1994), discussed and illus. 1F, 2F.

Susan Farrington, "N.Y. cityscapes blaze in Raleigh," Sanford, NC: Sanford Herald (October 26, 1994), discussed 17A.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview/Annual Report (Winter 1994-95), listed 43.

Kate Dobbs Ariail, "Into the great wide open" (review), Durham, NC; The Independent (January 18, 1995), 23.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview/Annual Report (Spring 1996), listed 70, illus. (b-w) 74.

John Kessel, "Night Wing," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 132-133, illus. (color) 132.

Chuck Twardy, "Gifts to ourselves." Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 12, 1997), 16, illus. (color) 15.

World Views: How Artists See the Earth, Newspapers in Education (supplement to the Raleigh News & Observer), n.d., 13, illus. (color).

William Sharpe, "Nostalgia and Connection in the Postmodern Metropolis," in post ex sub dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions, Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST), eds. (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2002), briefly discussed 248-49, illus. (b-w) 254.

Hilaire Faberman, Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2002), cat. 112, 115, 117, 120, 153, illus. (color) 116.

Huston Paschal and Linda Johnson Dougherty, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2003), discussed 49, 128, illus. (color) 129, (b-w) 48, detail (color) xii-xiii.

Robert Berlind, "Eye in the Sky," Art in America (March 2004), mentioned 106.

William Chapman Sharpe, New York Nocturne (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), discussed 340, illus. (b-w) 339, fig. E.9.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "New York, New York: Recent Cityscapes," 15 October 1994-12 February 1995, cat. no. 11, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

Stanford, CA, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, "Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette," January 30-April 21, 2002; Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum of Art, July 17-October 13, 2002; Salt Lake City, UT, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, November 10, 2002-January 12, 2003; Yonkers, NY, The Hudson River Museum, February 7-May 25, 2003, cat. 112, 115, 117, 120, 153, illus. (color) 116.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight," November 2, 2003-March 7, 2004, cat. 49, 128, illus. (color) 129, (b-w) 48, detail (color) xii-xiii.

Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 22, 2008-May 17, 2009.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 22, 2023.

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