Little information is available about the life of Ann Crane. She was the stepdaughter, and later the wife, of the American Tonalist painter Bruce Crane.

She studied art with John Twachtman in New York and with Merson in Paris.

In 1902 her mother Jeanne, then married to Bruce Crane, brought a divorce suit against him, accusing him of adultery with her daughter by a previous marriage. Jeanne had been hospitalized in an insane asylum. The judge believed there was many problems with her action and allowed Bruce to divorce her instead. Two years later he married Ann, who was 24 years his junior.

Her husband maintained a studio in New York while Ann spent most of her time at the family farm near Utica. Bruce was also spending time at Old Lyme, associating with the artists who worked at the Florence Griswold house. Ann and Bruce had a daughter, who later suggested that her mother was unhappy at Old Lyme, where her husband was popular and where she was unable to establish her own identity as an artist.

They moved to Bronxville, New York in 1914 and Ann is recorded as having been active in that city into the 1940's.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton