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The Art Muse (The Last Judgment)

Artist Audrey Flack (American, 1931 - 2024)
Title The Art Muse (The Last Judgment)
Date 2014–2017
Medium Digital pigment print and mixed media
Dimensions Image: 27 1/2 × 20 5/16 in. (69.9 × 51.6 cm)
Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/4 in. (76 × 56.5 cm)
Framed: 37 1/8 × 29 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (94.3 × 74 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. Jane Fortune, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2019.2

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About this Work

An early practitioner of photorealism, Audrey Flack differed from many of her male contemporaries in that she preferred domestic still lifes and female icons, such as Marilyn Monroe and Medusa, to subjects like cars and cityscapes. This work relates to Flack’s large-scale, bronze sculpture depicting a modern muse to the fine arts (also in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art’s collection). Here, Flack superimposes the allegorical female figure over imagery from Michelangelo’s Last Judgement. The “art muse” holds up paintbrushes triumphantly in one hand and grasps a Roman numeral clock in the other indicating that art can stop time.


2019, Gift to the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, from the estate of Dr. Jane Fortune, Indianapolis, IN

Unknown date, Jane Fortune purchase from Hollis Taggert, New York, NY

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