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Anna Huntington Stanley (April 20, 1864 – February 25, 1907) was an American Impressionist artist. She was born on April 20, 1864 in Yellow Springs, Ohio to Anna Maria Wright and General David Sloan Stanley of the US Army. She died in 1907.[1]

Anna Huntington Stanley
Born(1864-04-20)April 20, 1864
Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States
DiedFebruary 25, 1907(1907-02-25) (aged 42)
Chester, Pennsylvania
MovementAmerican Impressionism

Her works can be found in numerous institutional collections including The Smithsonian American Art Museum.[2] An exhibition that included her work, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914 [3] was featured at the Telfair Museum of Art,[4] the Taft Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum,[5] and the Singer Museum.


Biography



Early life


Anna Stanley was born in a small village in Greene County, Ohio in 1864 to parents David Sloan Stanley, a U.S. Army Brigadier General, and Anna Maria Wright. She and her six siblings were primarily cared for by their mother. Due to her father's military career, the Stanley family moved several times after the end of the Civil War and lived in South Dakota, Michigan, New York, Texas and Washington, DC.

Stanley spent her high school years in New York, where she attended the Buffalo Female Academy and was lauded for her skills in drawing and painting. She received instruction under Ammi Merchant Farnham, a prominent American painter known for his landscapes. Some of his influence can be seen in Stanley's later work.

In the fall of 1882, Stanley moved to Philadelphia to continue her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she attended anatomy lectures and studied life drawing and sculpture under the artists Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz until the spring of 1885. During this time, she also met Chicago artist Pauline Dohn Rudolph ("Lena"), who would later accompany her to Europe.


European years


In 1887, Anna Stanley, accompanied by her mother and her friend, Lena, traveled to Venice and then to Paris, where she enrolled in the Académie Julian. Several other students who had attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts also studied at the Académie Julian, one of them being Ida C. Haskell. At the Académie, Stanley was taught by the two renowned artists Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. Surviving family correspondence sheds light on Stanley's experiences, including details on the methodology of other artists, as well as critiques she received from their instructors. In one letter, Stanley wrote that she received "stern criticisms", but recounted that her instructors were “fair and instructive.”

Page from a letter postmarked July 2, 1888, to Stanley's parents, with a sketch for later oil painting Dutch Milk Maid
Page from a letter postmarked July 2, 1888, to Stanley's parents, with a sketch for later oil painting "Dutch Milk Maid"

In the summer of 1888, Stanley traveled to Rijsoord, a small and isolated town in the Netherlands, with several other friends and classmates. There, she stayed with the cousins of John H. Vanderpoel, an art teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who also came to Rijsoord with the group of students to paint and teach. In Rijsoord, Stanley primarily painted scenes of Dutch farmers and laborers, women and children, and views of river scenes, dikes, and wide-open landscapes.

In the fall of 1888, Stanley returned to Paris along with her friends, and registered at the Académie Colarossi, where they received instruction from artists Jean-André Rixens and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois. In May of 1889, Stanley's painting, Au commencement et à al fin, was selected for exhibition at the Paris Salon, and in June, she, along with many of the student artists, returned to Rijsoord for the summer.


Later years


Anna Stanley came back to San Antonio, Texas, in November 1889. In 1891, three of her paintings were included in the First Annual Exhibition of American Art at the Detroit Museum of Fine Arts in Michigan. By this time, Stanley had become more well known, and had her artwork exhibited in various art museums. She continued to produce works over the next several years and exhibited at the National Academy of Design, The Boston Art Club, and the Society of Washington Artists. Her work was also included in an exhibition in Washington, D.C. for the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans’ group that formed after the Civil War.

In 1895, at her brother David's graduation from West Point Military Academy, Stanley met Lieutenant Willard Ames Holbrook, whom she would later marry. Soon after, Stanley made her last trip to Rijsoord, this time staying there for five months. Upon her return to the United States, she continued to have her paintings featured in exhibitions, including at the Veerhoff Galleries in Washington, D.C. In October of 1896, Stanley married Lt. Willard Holbrook, and subsequently moved to his post at Fort Grant, Arizona. In 1897, she exhibited The Spinning Wheel at the Society of Washington Artists, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., which was the last known exhibition of her work during her lifetime, although she continued to paint.

In May of 1899, Stanley gave birth to Willard Ames Holbrook, Jr, and she gave birth to David Stanley Holbrook in April of 1900. Due to her husband's position in the army, Stanley and her family moved frequently. Lt. Holbrook was stationed in the Philippines in 1900, and Stanley and her sons stayed in Washington, joining her husband in the Philippines a year later. During their residence on the island of Panay, in the Philippines, Holbrook and Stanley visited Japan and Korea, which influenced Stanley's artwork. The family returned to America and lived at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, and then at Fort Prescott from 1903 to 1905, when Lt. Holbrook received orders to teach at the Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania.

On February 25, 1907, at 42 years of age, Anna Stanley died of pneumonia at her home in Chester, leaving behind her husband and her two young sons. She was buried at the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.


Chronology


General David Sloan Stanley
General David Sloan Stanley



References


  1. "Biography". Anna Stanley. Archived from the original on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  2. "SIRIS – Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". Siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  3. Leeman, Fred (Spring 2011). "Exhibition review of Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914". Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 10 (1).
  4. "Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914 | Telfair Museums". Telfair.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  5. "Grand Rapids Art Museum presents Dutch Utopia : American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914" (PDF). Artmuseumgr.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04.


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[es] Anna Huntington Stanley

Anna Huntington Stanley (20 de abril de 1864 - 25 de febrero de 1907) fue una artista impresionista estadounidense. Nació en Yellow Springs, Ohio, hija de Anna Maria Wright y el general David Sloan Stanley, del ejército de los EE. UU. [1]

[ru] Стэнли, Анна Хантингтон

Анна Хантингтон Стэнли (англ. Anna Huntington Stanley; 1864 — 1907) — американская художница, писавшая в стиле импрессионизма.


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