Adeïne de la Noë

Adeïne de La Noë was born in France and educated at the Beaux Arts in Lille and the Grande Chaumière in Paris. In 1956 she emigrated to the United States, where she studied at the Art Students League of New York and with Hans Hoffman, a well-known Abstract Expressionist painter.

De La Noë moved to Taos in 1961 for a residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. She was a strong and welcome addition to the group of modern artists there known as the Taos Moderns, and she became good friends with several, including Agnes Martin. De La Noë would remain in Taos until the end of her life, becoming an active member of the Taos art colony and one of Taos' most respected artists.

De La Noë was directly influenced by Abstract Expressionism in her landscapes and non-figurative paintings, both based on forms in nature. "All I do is influenced by nature," she once told an interviewer.

For her, this included sometimes incorporating natural objects such as river-washed gravel into her paintings with a heavy palette knife and gravel texture technique, as well as delicate translucent washes. Within her canvases we find the tumbling cosmos, floating petals in the wind, all the beauty, turbulence, and frailty of the human condition.