Ann Stewart Anderson (March 3, 1935 – March 4, 2019) was an American artist from Louisville, Kentucky whose paintings "focused on the rituals of being a woman."[1] Anderson is known for her part in creating the collective work, the "Hot Flash Fan," a fabric art work about menopause funded by theNational Endowment for the Arts.[2] She was the executive director of theKentucky Foundation for Women.[1] Anderson died on March 4, 2019, one day after her 84th birthday.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Ann Stewart Anderson was born inFrankfort, Kentucky.[4] Along with her two sisters, Ann Stewart was a “PK,” a Preacher's Kid, the daughters of Olof Anderson and Martha Ward Jones Anderson. Rev. Anderson led Presbyterian congregations in Lebanon andRichmond, KY., before moving his family toLouisville to head Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church.[3] She graduated fromWellesley College with a B.A. in History of Art in 1957, and earned a Master in Art (Painting) fromThe American University in 1961.[2] She attended theCorcoran School of Art and theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago.[5]
Anderson worked at theCorcoran Gallery of Art in the late 1950s and taught art in theMontgomery County, Maryland schools before relocating to Chicago. From 1964 to 1975, she was employed by theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she quickly rose to become dean of students, a position that tempered her spirit and tested her diplomatic skills as she dealt with students involved in the heady days of the late 1960s, including the protests around the Democratic Convention of 1968.[3] After two unsuccessful attempts at applying for the Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship, awarded to Wellesley alumnae, she won the fellowship in 1975, when she was 40. With the Stevens Fellowship, Ann Stewart spent a year in Egypt working on a photographic project, finding scenes of daily life from modern-day Cairo and Egyptian villages (plowing, planting, harvesting; making beer and bread and mud-bricks; plucking ducks; fishing with nets in the river delta) that mirrored those depicted in Pharaonic-era tomb paintings from 3, 000 years ago.[3] After returning to Kentucky in 1975, Anderson served as artist-in-residence atSt. Francis High School in Louisville and later as executive director of theKentucky Foundation for Women.[5] In 1985, she collaborated on an NEA-funded project called Hot Flash Fan with the feminist artistJudy Chicago, a giant multi-media project addressing menopause that included work by over 50 artists.[6] A 60-year retrospective exhibition of her work, "Looking Back/Moving Forward," was mounted at PYRO Art Gallery in Louisville in 2009.[7]
2002: Individual Grant, TheKentucky Foundation for Women,1998: Professional Development Grant, Kentucky Arts Commission,1998:Sallie Bingham Award, Kentucky Foundation for Women,1991:Southern Arts Federation, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant,1988: Purchase Award, Kentucky Graphics,1987: Individual Grant, The Kentucky Foundation for Women,1986: Charles Logan Memorial Prize, Water Tower Art Association, Water Tower Annual,1985: Robert Cooke Enlow Memorial Purchase Award,Evansville Museum of Art and Science,1975: Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship,Wellesley College,[8]
Citizens Bank, Glasgow KY; Homequity Wilton, CT;Drake Hotel, Chicago; Turtle Wax Company, Chicago; Brown Foreman Distillers;Atlantic Richfield Corporation;Alabama Power Company; Colwell Financial; Central Bank, Lexington; Hilliard Lyons, Louisville;University of Kentucky Art Museum [9]
- 195813th Area Exhibition, TheCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- 195914th Area Exhibition, TheCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- 1960 Pyramid Gallery, Richmond VA
- 1960 LaRue Gallery, Washington D.C.
- 196215th Area Exhibition, TheCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- 1962American Art League Show, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
- 1962 La Boheme, Arlington VA
- 1963 Art Center Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1966National Show of Drawings, Mulvane Art Center, Topeka KS
- 1966Artists of Kentucky Area,J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1967National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie IN
- 1973 Montgomery Gallery, Rockville MD
- 1975New Horizons, North Show Art League, Chicago IL
- 1977Hyatt Regency Exhibition,J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1981J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1982Mid America Biennial, Owensboro Fine Arts Museum, Owensboro KY
- 1983The Flower,J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1983Fire I, Art Center Association, Louisville KY
- 1983Woman Art,Living Art and Science Center, Lexington KY
- 1983Kentucky Art,University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY
- 198538th Annual Mid-States Art,Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville IN
- 1985Vanities, Swearingen Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1985Collaborative Effort "Hot Flash Fan" (with Judy Chicago) Martha White Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1986Showcase '86, Water Tower Art Association, Louisville KY
- 1986Women's Sensibilities,WARM Gallery, Minneapolis MN
- 1986Kentucky Show,J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1986 Todd Capp Gallery, New York NY
- 1987Last Hurrah, First Hooray, LOHO Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1987State of Mind, traveling show by Kentucky artists
- 1988Thanatopsis, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY
- 1988Fanfares, SOHO20 Gallery, New York NY
- 1988The Experienced Eye, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY
- 1988ME: Artists' Self Portraits, Liberty Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1988Mid America Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY
- 1988Kentucky Graphics,Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington KY
- 1989The Human Figure, Atlanta Festival, Atlanta GA
- 1989Ladies' Room, McGrath Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1989Regional Exhibit, Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis IN
- 1989 Two woman exhibit,J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1990Transformations: Feminist Art by Louisville Artists, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY
- 1990Fanfares,Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington KY
- 1991 Kingman Gallery, Quito, Ecuador
- 1991Collective Contrasts . Zephyr Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1991 Trumbull Art Gallery, Ohio
- 1992Refiguration, Gallery 10, Washington D.C.
- 1992Ladies Lunch, Contemporary Art Gallery, New Harmony, IN,
- 1994The Shopping Experience, Liberty Gallery, Louisville KY
- 1994Wise Woman,Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
- 1994Red Clay Exhibit,Huntsville Museum of Art, Hunstsville AL
- 1995New Paintings, Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill NC
- 1995The Education of the Artist, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green KY
- 1996What I Ate and When, Art Center of Douglas County, Castle Rock CO
- 1996Art Festival, Decatur GA
- 1996Woman, the Artists' View, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington VT
- 1997Original Stories, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY
- 1998New Works: Ann Stewart Anderson and Jeanne Dueber, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green KY
- 1998Americans: A Satirical Parade,J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
- 1999Made in Kentucky II,University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY
- 2000The Mythology of Womanhood,Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis IN
- 2000By Invitation, Belknap Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville KY
- 2000Nature Revisited, Tower Cerlan Gallery, Lexington KY
- 2001Inequitable Conditions, Montgomery Gallery, Mt. Sterling KY
- 2001Image is Everything: Women and Issues of Beauty, Kentucky Theatre Gallery, Louisville KY
- 2001 Kentucky Women Artists: 1850–2000, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY
- 2001The Box, Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville KY
- 2001Breakfastworks, Louisville Visual Art association, Louisville KY
- 2002Mythic Women,University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY
- 2002Mythic Women,Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Louisville KY
- 2002Water Tower Annual, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY
- 2003 Here and There, Brunz-Rosowsky Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
- 2003Helen and Clytemnestra,Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton NJ
- 2005-6Mythic Women Juxtaposed,Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville KY
- 2006IDo! I Do!, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY
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