Portrait, 1930
Charcoal on paper, 24 x 18 inches
Private Collection

Ann Troutman was born in Michigan on June 30, 1897. She lived as a young girl in St. Cloud, Minnesota. After spending a number of years at Pauline Kunkel Studios in Washington, D.C. she studied at the Art Students League in New York under George Bridgman and Frank Du Mond. Troutman took several summer courses with Robert Brackman at his Noank studio and spent a year at the Vienna Art Academy as a student of Wilhelm Dauchauer. She also studied at the Royal Academy in London. Troutman moved to Louisville in the 1930s with her husband Woodford B. Troutman, a heart specialist who became head of Jefferson County Medical Society. She exhibited regionally, in Chicago and in Philadelphia. While on a world cruise with her husband in the 1950s, she sketched island natives which were later incorporated into her paintings. Troutman died in Louisville August 10, 1989 at age 98.

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