Talk:Anne Poor

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• Below link is article about the book that Anne Poor and Henry Miller created together - http://nataliavogeikoff.com/2015/06/01/henry-millers-timeless-greece-through-the-drawings-of-anne-poor/
• Below link is web page about Anne Poor the artist with many photos and visual images - http://www.annepoor.org/
• below link New York Times Obituary written by art critic Holland Cotter - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/nyregion/anne-poor-84-painter-of-war-and-landscape.html
• below link to Anne Poor painting in Brooklyn Museum - https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/65940/The_Fresco_Painter
• below link Skowhegan - frescoes - http://www.southsolonmeetinghouse.org/frescoes.html
• http://collection.whitney.org/artist/1041/AnnePoor
• http://www.artsandletters.org/collections_centennial_popup.php?image=37_poor.jpg
• Link to book : North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary by Julie Heller, Nancy G. Heller
• https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA448&lpg=PA448&dq=anne+poor+and+War+Art&source=bl&ots=QyFvTfWYax&sig=YgsfPAsfmxteEceahqqrMWQuMik&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJj5ePsKrLAhWD2B4KHXAIC-UQ6AEISTAK#v=onepage&q=anne%20poor%20and%20War%20Art&f=fals
• American Women Artists, by Eleanor Munro
• Inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters 1987
• Inducted into The National Academy of Design 1975

Grumpypie (talk) 20:51, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Was she the only or FIRST woman combat artist in WWII. She was in Women's Army Corps.Cmyok (talk) 21:22, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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moved unsourced CV items off main space. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:28, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Major Works and Exhibitions

• 1938: Collaborative mural project in Washington, D.C for the Department of Justice and Department of Interior Buildings.
• 1940: Collaborative mural for Pennsylvania State University.
• 1941: Mural commissioned for Depew, New York post office.
• 1942: Mural commissioned for Gleason, Tennessee post office.
• 1942: “Artists for Victory” show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• 1943: First solo show at the American-British Art Center, NYC.
• 1943: Military life paintings exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
• 1944: First one-person show at the American-British Art Center in NYC.
• 1944: “Men in Flight” exhibition showcasing 33 paintings and drawings of bomber crews in action at the WAC Showroom in Rockefeller Center, New York City.
• 1944: Exhibited at the National Gallery of Art— the only woman and non-commissioned officer in a group show.
• 1946: Wartime wash and ink drawings shown at the American-British Art Center.
• 1946: The Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings.
  • Exhibited— Waiting, undated.
• 1948: American-British Art Center Show.
• 1952: The Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings.
• 1956: The Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings.
• 1957: The Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition: Sculptures, Paintings, Watercolors.
  • Exhibited—Girl with Rooster, undated.
• 1959: The Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting.
  • Exhibited—Flowers, undated.
• 1992: New York solo show at Terry Dintenfass.
• 2001: Exhibition of works on paper at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, New York.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of photographs and museum catalogues, it is challenging to conclude her most famous works or exhibitions. Available images of Poor’s oeuvre are found at her personal website monitored by her surviving niece, Anna Poor.

Awards

• 1940: Awarded a Works Progress Administration mural commission.
• 1944: Awarded first prize in the National Army Arts Contest.
• 1948: Awarded the Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Fellowship for mural painting, a grant for advanced study and travel.
• 1971: Awarded the Benjamin Altman landscape prize from the Nation Academy of Design in New York City.
• 1972: Awarded the Hassam grant by The National Academy of Arts and Letters.
• 1972: Awarded the Henry War Ranger purchase fund prize by the National Academy of Design.
• 1977: Awarded the Hassam grant by The National Academy of Arts and Letters.
• 1981: Awarded the Benjamin Altman Landscape prize from the National Academy of Design for her oil painting, Ice on the River, undated.
• 1987: Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter. Now known as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.