ANNE BASCOVE

BIO

Anne Bascove is a NYC-based collagist, painter, and printmaker. She received her B.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art. While living in Paris by the Seine, she started drawing bridges, a practice that she continues still in NYC. Her love of the city and interest in architecture, science, and literature drive her explorations.

Bascove was commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit, NY and Norwalk Transit District, CT to create public art installations. Her work is in public, corporate and institutional collections including the Museum of the City of New York, NY, U. S. Department of State, Art in Embassies, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, University of Texas at Tyler, TX, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, The Noble Maritime Collection, NY, Harry Ransom Collection, University of Texas at Austin, TX, The New York Public Library, NY, The Library and National Archives, Canada, Rachofsky Collection, TX, Time Warner Collection, NY, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, TX, Norwalk Transit District, Norwalk, CT, Special Collections at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Oresman Collection, NY, MTA, Arts for Transit, NY, Musée de Cherbourg, France. Bascove was selected by the US State Department’s Art in Embassies Cultural Exchange, her work was exhibited at American Embassies from 2016- 2019, and is in their Permanent Collection.

Bascove has lectured and arranged events with the Museum of the City of New York, the Arsenal in Central Park, the Central Park Conservancy, Municipal Art Society, New York University’s Fales Library, and the Hudson River Museum. Three collections of her paintings have been published, accompanied by her edited anthologies of related writings:Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover's Anthology of Sensuality & 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.