29 Facts About Anne Goldthwaite

Anne Goldthwaite was an American painter and printmaker and an advocate of women's rights and equal rights.

Anne Goldthwaite then moved to Paris where she studied modern art, including Fauvism and Cubism, and became a member of a circle that included Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Anne Goldthwaite was a member of a group of artists that called themselves Academie Moderne and held annual exhibitions.

Anne Goldthwaite set up residence in New York City and spent the summers with family in Montgomery, Alabama.

Anne Goldthwaite taught at Art Students League of New York for 23 years and during the summers, she was an instructor at the Dixie Art Colony.

Anne Goldthwaite became known in the South for her scenes of post-slave rural African American life.

Anne Goldthwaite was an organizer for the 1915 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign and created works of art for the event.

Anne Wilson Goldthwaite was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 28,1869.

Anne Goldthwaite was the son of Alabama senator George Goldthwaite.

Anne Goldthwaite's family moved to Dallas, Texas and remained there for the majority of her childhood while her father looked for work.

Anne Goldthwaite's aunt presented her to society as a promising young debutante who was destined to become a southern belle.

Anne Goldthwaite arrived in New York around 1898 and enrolled at the National Academy of Design, where she studied etching with Charles Frederick William Mielatz and painting with Walter Shirlaw.

In 1906, Anne Goldthwaite traveled to Paris, where she lived at the American Girls' Club and explored her interest in the early modern painting styles of Fauvism and Cubism.

Anne Goldthwaite met Gertrude Stein while sketching in the Luxembourg Gardens.

Anne Goldthwaite wore, wrapped tight around her, a brown kimono-like garment and a large flat black hat, and stood on feet covered with wide sandals.

Anne Goldthwaite returned to America and contributed to the introduction of European Modernism in the 1913 New York Armory Show.

Anne Goldthwaite showed The Church on the Hill at the landmark exhibition, alongside renown artists Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and others.

At the exhibition, Anne Goldthwaite met fellow artist Katherine Dreier, who became a lifelong friend.

Anne Goldthwaite began painting lovingly rendered portraits of her friends and family, including her sister Lucy, painter Rico Lebrun, and her first New York dealer Joseph Brummer.

Anne Goldthwaite later became known as one of the South's most important regional artists for her scenes of post-slave rural African American life.

Anne Goldthwaite documented the lifestyle with oil paintings, watercolors, and etchings.

Anne Goldthwaite completed The Letter Box in Atmore, Alabama in 1937 and The Road to Muskegee in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1939.

Anne Goldthwaite spent 23 years as a beloved teacher at the Art Students League of New York.

Anne Goldthwaite's work was brought to Edith Halpert, who focused on showing the work of American Modernists.

Anne Goldthwaite was given several one-woman shows in her Downtown Gallery in New York.

Anne Goldthwaite's work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Anne Goldthwaite was an advocate of equal rights and women's rights.

Anne Goldthwaite was actively involved in woman's groups, and fought for equality in the South for ethnic minorities.

On January 29,1944, Anne Goldthwaite died in New York after a long illness.