In her paintings, drawings, and prints, Ann Chernow’s work is informed by classic cinema, reinterpreting film characters and period settings to create intimate moments of suspended reality. Often referred to as the “Queen of Noir,” she uses 1930s and 1940s motion pictures as the foundation for her work. She has described the purpose of her work is to “preserve a genre’s cinematic moment, to transpose nostalgia, to juxtapose fantasy and reality.”

Born in New York, Chernow earned a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Arts degree from New York University. She was a studio art instructor at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and later an art history instructor and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, Mansfield. Collections of her work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National University of Taiwan, Taipei; and the Coupozoulos Museum, Athens.

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