Anne Taylor Nash (1884–1968) was an American painter, largely of portraits. Born Anne Mauger Taylor in Pittsboro,

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, Nash did not begin painting until she was forty, being inspired to do so by her friend

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (December 21, 1883 – April 17, 1979) was an artist, author, lecturer, and preservationist who was one of the leaders of the Charleston Renaissance. She has been called "the best-known woman artist of South Carolina of the ...

. She studied art at the

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, the

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, and the New England School of Fine Arts, and she was a pupil of Verner's in 1924. She was an active member of the Southern States Art League and the

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. Nash married Edmund Strudwick Nash, a descendant of

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and a relative of

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, in 1906, and shortly thereafter moved to

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. Her portraits were exhibited at the

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in 1933. In 1937 the family moved to

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, where she remained active for the rest of her life, exhibiting at the

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with the Savannah Art Club at least ten times between 1931 and 1958. Her work was once again the subject of a retrospective at the Telfair in 2015.

References

1884 births 1968 deaths American portrait painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters People from Pittsboro, North Carolina Painters from North Carolina Artists from Savannah, Georgia Painters from Georgia (U.S. state) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts {{US-painter-1880s-stub