Anne Carleton (1878 – 1968) was an American painter known for her land and sea scapes.

Early life and education

Anne Carleton was born in 1878 in

Atkinson, New Hampshire Atkinson is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,087 at the 2020 census. It is located 34 miles north of Boston, and part of the Greater Boston region. History Atkinson's history dates back to the Am ...

and began studying painting in 1899 at the

Massachusetts Normal Art School Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a Public university, public art school, college of visual art, visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and t ...

in Boston. Carleton spent much of her life under mentorship and in schooling for art. Following her time at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, Carleton also studied in a Design post graduate program at Vesper George School of Art in Boston, as well as under other painters at Harvard University in 1901, and Columbia Summer School of Art in 1904. Following her studies, Carleton began teaching in surrounding school districts in 1913, before studying once more at Charles Woodbury's Summer School of Drawing and Painting in Ogunquit, Maine. Some notable artists she worked with include Gertrude Fiske, Mabel May Woodward and Jane Peterson.

Works, memberships and exhibits

Carleton's paintings most often were of seascapes and beach scenes in cities such as Gloucester, Rockport, Ogunquit and Portsmouth, NH. In the 1920s, Carleton exhibited at New York's Art Students League, the Copley Society, and the Boston Society of independent Artists. Carleton became a member of the Boston Society of Independent Artists, Art Students League, American Artists Professional League, Boston's Copley Society, Massachusetts Art Alumni, Marblehead Art Association, and Ogunquit Art Association. Carleton was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship but ultimately did not accept it in order to remain in Massachusetts and teach. Carleton's works can be found in countless galleries and auctions; most notably, Carleton has 6 paintings hanging in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, including ''Ogunquit Beach, Beach Scene, At the Beach, Light House, Girls on Ogunquit Beach,'' and ''Hot Sun, Ogunquit Beach.''

Death

Carleton died in 1968 in her home state of Massachusetts at the age of 90.

References

1878 births 1968 deaths People from Atkinson, New Hampshire 19th-century American painters 19th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters {{US-painter-1870s-stub