Anne Goldthwaite

Anne Wilson Goldthwaite was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 28, 1869. Her father, Richard W. Goldthwaite, was an artillery captain for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He was the son of Alabama senator George Goldthwaite. Her family moved to Dallas, Texas and remained there for the majority of her childhood while her father looked for work. Upon the death of her parents, Goldthwaite and her two sisters returned to Alabama to be cared for by various family members. Her aunt presented her to society as a promising young debutante who was destined to become a southern belle. This changed after her fiancé was killed in a duel. While visiting Goldthwaite in Alabama, her uncle Henry Goldthwaite was impressed by her drawing and painting skills. To lift her spirits, he offered to support her financially for up to ten years if she relocated to New York City to study art. 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. == Career ==

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. At the exhibition, Goldthwaite met fellow artist Katherine Dreier, who became a lifelong friend. Goldthwaite spent 23 years as a beloved teacher at the Art Students League of New York. She was also an active member of several artist organizations such as the New York Society of Women Artists, where she was appointed president in 1937–1938. == Activism ==

Anne Goldthwaite was an advocate of equal rights and women's rights. She was actively involved in woman's groups, and fought for equality in the South for ethnic minorities. Her work as an activist and artist intersected on several occasions, including the 1915 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign, which she co-organized, and the unfurling of a suffrage banner of her own design at a 1916 New York Giants baseball game. == Later life ==

On January 29, 1944, Anne Goldthwaite died in New York after a long illness. Her funeral service and burial took place in Montgomery, Alabama. ==Works==

• Avenue of the Allies - 5th Avenue, 1918, etching, 1918, Smithsonian American Art Museum • Bulrushes (No. 1), etching, c. 1895, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts • Bulrushes (No. 2), etching, c. 1895, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts • Cow and Calf, drypoint, c. 1928, Cleveland Museum of Art • East Tenth Street (Anne at the Window), etching and drypoint, c. 1928, Cleveland Museum of Art • Garden Gate, Near Ascain #7, oil on canvas, 1912, Metropolitan Museum • Horse and Rider, lithograph, c. 1936, Smithsonian American Art Museum • Mending (No. 3), lithograph, c. 1936, Smithsonian American Art Museum • At Montmartre (also called ''New Year's Night - Cafe Versaille),'' etching, c. 1910, Smithsonian American Art Museum • New York Harbor, etching, c. 1915, Cleveland Museum of Art • Night Series: Dog Baying at the Moon, lithograph, c. 1930, Cleveland Museum of Art • Nude Reading (No. 1), lithograph, c. 1933, Smithsonian American Art Museum • October in France, etching, c. 1907, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts • Polo (No. 1), etching, c. 1924, Cleveland Museum of Art • Portrait of a Young Man, oil on canvas, 1913, Smithsonian American Art Museum • Self-Portrait, oil on wood mounted on fiber, , Smithsonian American Art Museum • Southern Street, watercolor and graphite on paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art • St. Sulpice, Paris, etching, c. 1908, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts • The Pantheon, etching, c. 1908, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts • Young Woman in White, oil on canvas, , Cleveland Museum of Art • White Mules on a Bridge, oil on canvas, , Metropolitan Museum of Art ==References==