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About Anna L. Stacey
Anna Lee Stacey (née Day), who would be regarded as "a leading painter among Chicago artists," received her early art training at the Pritchard School in Kansas City. At the Art Institute of Chicago she studied under the tonalist Leonard Ochtman, between 1893 and 1899. She arrived in the fall, in time to see the World’s Columbian Exposition, where impressionist works from the Loan Collection brightened the walls of the Fine Arts Palace. Anna came to Chicago with her husband, another artist, John Franklin Stacey (see following entries), who had already studied at the Académie Julian (1883-85). Anna won a prize for a watercolor at the West End Woman’s Club Salon in 1896 and began to exhibit at the Art Institute’s annual shows. Between 1895 and 1939, she exhibited almost three hundred works there. Both Anna and John Stacey had their works featured in an exhibition at the Art Institute in December of 1920. The prolific couple worked in the Tree Studio Building (in our time, being commercially metamorphosed by nearsighted Chicago developers). Anna served on the jury for the Art Institute’s 1907 winter exhibition. She studied and traveled in Europe — in France, Italy, Spain, and Belgium at various times between 1900 and 1914. While Stacey’s execution became more daring and spontaneous, nearly approaching a Fauvist look, at times her works seem repetitive and stylized. Stacey was also attracted to California: in 1915, she took part in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, exhibiting In Furs and Moonlight, Granada (ca. 1914) and later in 1939, she returned to San Francisco. The last two years of her life were spent in Pasadena. |
Paintings by Anna L. Stacey
| The Wharf, Gloucester, MA |
| oil on canvas: 16 x 20 inches |
| signed: lower left |
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| Wheatfields at Twilight, France |
| oil on canvas: 14 x 16 inches |
| signed and dated 1908: lower right |
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