Pieta, 1960
Oil on canvas, 39-1/2 x 49 inches
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville

Ann Stewart Anderson was born March 3, 1935 in Frankfort, Kentucky. As a child Ann painted alongside her mother who herself was an artist. Anderson earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1957 and an M.A. from American University in 1960. She attended the Corcoran School of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. In the late 1950s, Anderson worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She taught art in the Montgomery County, Maryland schools until 1964 when she became Dean of Students and Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She moved back to Kentucky in 1975 to become Artist-in-Residence at Louisville's St. Francis High School from 1977 to 1991. The following seven years she served as Executive Director for the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Anderson is a contemporary working artist currently living in Louisville, Kentucky.

Learn more about Ann Stewart Anderson at www.annstewartanderson.com.

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