Anna Huntington Stanley
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April 20, 1864 Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States |
| Died | February 25, 1907 (aged 42) Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Movement | American Impressionism |
Anna Huntington Stanley (April 20, 1864 – February 25, 1907) was an American Impressionist artist. She was born on April 20, 1864 in Yellow Springs, Ohio to Anna Maria Wright and General David Sloan Stanley, US Army. She died in 1907.
Her works are found in numerous institutional collections including The Smithsonian American Art Museum. An exhibition that included her work, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914 was featured at the Telfair Museum of Art, the Taft Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Singer Museum.
American Impressionist artist, Anna Huntington Stanley (1864–1907), dedicated her career to depicting the human experience in oil and watercolor. After studying art in Philadelphia and Paris, under esteemed tutors, her work experienced a significant lightening in the color palette and the influences of Impressionism became more evident in her work. Anna's pictures, in which she encountered and depicted the everyday activity of common rural women and children, present attractive and yet intimate scenes of the life around her - regardless of location. Her extraordinary ability to record and honor the subjects and places represented in her work earns her a permanent seat in the annals of American art history.
Anna Stanley was born in a small village in Greene County, Ohio. She arrived during the fourth year of the American Civil War; that same year Abraham Lincoln was completing his first term as president, General William Tecumseh Sherman launched his campaign, March to the Sea, and Anna’s father, U.S. Army Brigadier-general David Sloan Stanley was wounded at the Battle of Franklin. Anna was cared for by her mother, Anna Maria, among six other siblings. Her father’s military career moved the Stanley family several times in the years following the Civil War, taking them to South Dakota, Michigan, New York, Texas and Washington, DC. In spite of this transient life, the commitment of David and Anna Maria Stanley to foster an environment that valued God, education, distinctive accomplishment and culture, the family remained intimate and resilient. It was this environment that nurtured Anna's ability to interpret the world around her through her art.
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