Anna Page Scott (1863–1925) was an

American Impressionist American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose ...

painter and educator.

Biography

Scott was born in

Dubuque, Iowa Dubuque (, ) is a city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 59,667 at the 2020 United States census. The city lies along the Mississippi River at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a region ...

, on October 13, 1863. She studied at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

, the

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum ...

, and the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

. Around 1890 Scott settled in New York City where she worked as an illustrator for the Century Publishing Company. In 1897 she moved to Rochester, New York where she began her teaching career at the

Mechanics Institute Mechanics' institutes, also known as mechanics' institutions, sometimes simply known as institutes, and also called schools of arts (especially in the Australian colonies), were educational establishments originally formed to provide adult ed ...

. She taught there until 1913. Scott died on October 13, 1925, in Dubuque.

Legacy

Scott was included in the 2016 traveling exhibition ''Rebels With a Cause: American Impressionist Women''.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Anna Page 1863 births 1925 deaths 19th-century American women painters 19th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters People from Dubuque, Iowa School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Académie Colarossi alumni