Annie Isabel Crawford (1856-1942) was an American painter and print maker.
Biography
Crawford was born in
Buffalo, New York
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, on November 3, 1856. She studied at the
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
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and then traveled to Europe to study in Rome and Paris.
While in Europe she met Charlotte "Emma" Wharton Kaan (1860-1949), who joined Crawford in Buffalo where the couple resided together and collaborated on artistic projects, including teaching. The couple also created a unique form of
relief printing that combined
woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...
prints and hand-coloring.
They were associated with the
Arts and Crafts movement.
Crawford exhibited work at the
20th Century Club, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (including the Albright Art Gallery), and the
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...
.
She was a member of
The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston.
Crawford died on February 18, 1942, in Buffalo.
References
External links
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Further reading
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Intimate Spirits: Remembering the Art and Lives of Annie Crawford & Emma Kaan', By Michael James and David F. Martin, Western New York Heritage magazine, October 15, 2007
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1856 births
1942 deaths
20th-century American women painters
19th-century American painters
19th-century American women painters
20th-century American painters
19th-century American printmakers
20th-century American printmakers
Artists from Buffalo, New York
Painters from New York (state)
American women printmakers