Anne Packard (born 1933) is an American artist, widely known for atmospheric seascape paintings.

Biography

Packard was born in 1933 in

Hyde Park, New York Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States, bordering the Hudson River north of Poughkeepsie. Within the town are the hamlets of Hyde Park, East Park, Staatsburg, and Haviland. Hyde Park is known as the hometown of Fra ...

. While growing up in Hyde Park, she spent her childhood summers in

Provincetown, Massachusetts Provincetown () is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States census, Provi ...

. She comes from a family of artists, including her grandmother, Zella, and grandfather, Max Bohm, a 19th- and 20th-century romantic

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

who was one of the founding members of an artist colony in Provincetown. She studied at

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...

in New York, and moved to Provincetown in 1977, where she apprenticed under Philip Malicoat. Her daughters Cynthia Packard and Leslie Packard are also notable painters. Her son, Michael Packard, is the only person in recorded history to have been inside a whale's mouth and survive; he was freed as the whale dislodged him from its mouth. Anne Packard opened hergallery
Packard Gallery
in 1988. The building is located in the Gallery District in Provincetown and was once home to a Christian Science Church.

References

External links

''A portrait of Anne Packard''
a short video on YouTube.
''Packard Gallery''
1933 births 21st-century American painters 20th-century American painters Provincetown, Massachusetts Living people 20th-century American women painters 21st-century American women painters {{US-painter-stub