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and she attended the

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studying under

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. Ann also studied landscape painting under

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. She married

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and they moved to

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in 1948, when her husband began work for the

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. She later headed Rector Studios that manufactured glass top tables. Her daughter Sara Anne Duffy was the first wife of designer

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, the son of

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. Rector's childhood diaries were published in 2004. They had been found many years after Rector's death and described her life for the year of 1912."Anne Elizabeth's Diary"
''Kirkus Reviews'', June 1st, 2004.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rector, Ann Elizabeth 1899 births 1970 deaths Art Students League of New York alumni Artists from San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican painters Puerto Rican women painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters