Ann Stewart Anderson

Ann Stewart Anderson (March 3, 1935 – March 4, 2019)[1] was an artist from Louisville, Kentucky whose paintings have "focused on the rituals of being a woman." [2] Anderson is known for her part in creating the collective work, the "Hot Flash Fan," a fabric art work about menopause funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.[3] She was the executive director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women.[2]

Ann Stewart Anderson, 2016, in her studio, Louisville KY
Mosaic paper artworks in her studio, 2016, by Ann Stewart Anderson

Early life and education

Anderson was born in Frankfort, 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 and Richmond, KY., before moving his family to Louisville to head Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church.[1] She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in History of Art in 1957, and earned a Master in Art (Painting) from The American University in 1961.[3] She attended the Corcoran School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[5]

Career

Anderson worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the late 1950s and taught art in the Montgomery County, Maryland schools before relocating to Chicago. From 1964 to 1975, she was employed by the School 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.[1] 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.[1] After returning to Kentucky in 1975, Anderson served as artist-in-residence at St. Francis High School in Louisville and later as executive director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women.[5] In 1985, she collaborated on an NEA-funded project called Hot Flash Fan with the feminist artist Judy 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]

Awards

2002: Individual Grant, The Kentucky 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]

Collections

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]

Exhibits[9]

2005-6 Mythic Women Juxtaposed, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville KY

2003 Helen and Clytemnestra, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton NJ

2002 Mythic Women, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY

2002 Mythic Women, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Louisville KY

2000 The Mythology of Womanhood, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis IN

2001 Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-2000, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY

1998 New Works: Ann Stewart Anderson and Jeanne Dueber, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green KY

1995 New Paintings, Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill NC

1994 The Shopping Experience, Liberty Gallery, Louisville KY

1990 Fanfares, Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington KY

1989 Ladies' Room, McGrath Gallery, Louisville KY

1988 Fanfares, SOHO20 Gallery, New York NY

1985 Vanities, Swearingen Gallery, Louisville KY

1981 J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1973 Montgomery Gallery, Rockville MD

1963 Art Center Gallery, Louisville KY

2006 IDo! I Do!, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY                                                     

2003  Here and There, Brunz-Rosowsky Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

2001 The Box, Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville KY

2001 Breakfastworks, Louisville Visual Art association, Louisville KY

2001 Image is Everything: Women and Issues of Beauty, Kentucky Theatre Gallery, Louisville KY

2001 Inequitable Conditions, Montgomery Gallery, Mt. Sterling KY

2000 By Invitation, Belknap Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville KY

2000 Nature Revisited, Tower Cerlan Gallery, Lexington KY

1999 Made in Kentucky II, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY

1998 Americans: A Satirical Parade, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1997 Original Stories, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY

1995 The Education of the Artist, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green KY

1992 Ladies Lunch, Contemporary Art Gallery, New Harmony, IN,

1992 Refiguration, Gallery 10, Washington D.C.

1991 Collective Contrasts . Zephyr Gallery, Louisville KY

1991 Kingman Gallery, Quito, Equador

1989 Two woman exhibit, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1988 Thanatopsis, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY

1988 The Experienced Eye, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY

1988 ME: Artists' Self Portraits, Liberty Gallery, Louisville KY

1987 State of Mind, traveling show by Kentucky artists

1987 Last Hurrah, First Hooray, LOHO Gallery, Louisville KY

1986 Todd Capp Gallery, New York NY

1985 Collaborative Effort "Hot Flash Fan" (with Judy Chicago) Martha White Gallery, Louisville KY

1983 The Flower, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1983 Woman Art, Living Art and Science Center, Lexington KY

1962 La Boheme, Arlington VA

1960 LaRue Gallery, Washington D.C.

1960 Pyramid Gallery, Richmond VA    

2002 Water Tower Annual, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY

1996 Woman, the Artists' View, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington VT

1996 What I Ate and When, Art Center of Douglas County, Castle Rock CO

1996 Art Festival, Decatur GA

1994 Wise Woman, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL

1994 Red Clay Exhibit, Huntsville Museum of Art, Hunstsville AL

1991 Trumbull Art Gallery, Ohio

1990 Transformations: Feminist Art by Louisville Artists, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY

1989 Regional Exhibit, Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis IN

1989 The Human Figure, Atlanta Festival, Atlanta GA

1988 Kentucky Graphics, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington KY

1988 Mid America Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY

1986 Showcase '86, Water Tower Art Association, Louisville KY

1986 Women's Sensibilities, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis MN

1986 Kentucky Show, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1985 38th Annual Mid-States Art, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville IN

1983 Kentucky Art, University of Kentucky Art Museum , Lexington KY

1983 Fire I, Art Center Association, Louisville KY

1982 Mid America Biennial, Owensboro Fine Arts Museum, Owensboro KY

1977 Hyatt Regency Exhibition, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1975 New Horizons, North Show Art League, Chicago IL

1967 National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie IN

1966 Artists of Kentucky Area, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1966 National Show of Drawings, Mulvane Art Center, Topeka KS

1962 American Art League Show, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

1962 15th Area Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1959 14th Area Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1958 13th Area Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC 

References
  1. "Ann Stewart Anderson - View Obituary & Service Information". Ann Stewart Anderson Obituary. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  2. "Ann Stewart Anderson: Mythic Women". Resource Library Magazine. 2002. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. "Curatorial Spotlight: Ann Stewart Anderson". Louisville Visual Art. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  4. "Anne Stewart Anderson". Kentucky Women Artists. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-2000. Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art. 2001. p. 54. OCLC 49200213.
  6. Yates, Sarah (8 November 2016). "Curatorial Spotlight: Ann Stewart Anderson". Louisville Visual Art -- Artebella. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  7. ""Ann Stewart Anderson - Looking Back / Moving Forward a retrospective" on YouTube". Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  8. ""About the Artist - Awards" on website". Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  9. "Kentucky Women Artists".
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