Ann Craven: Moons (2009, 2012, 2022), 2026

Ann Craven (b. 1961) is an American painter known for her paintings of birds, the moon, flowers and animals, often executed with strong chromatic contrasts. Since she first painted the moon in Maine in 1995 she has returned to the subject in its countless guises, and in a 2006 project she painted more than 400 moon paintings as seen from the roof of her New York home. Repetition and memory are central to her practice, in which the moon becomes a means of archiving experience. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Henry Art Gallery.