One of the pioneering American women artists of the early twentieth century, Anne Goldthwaite was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. Her parents died when she was a young woman, and in 1898, she left Alabama to pursue a professional career as an artist in New York City. Goldthwaite studied at the National Academy of Design for six years before traveling abroad in 1906 for further training in Paris. There she became acquainted with the avant-garde circle of Gertrude Stein and the artists of the burgeoning Fauve and Cubist movements. With a group of associates, she helped form the Academie Moderne and sought instruction and criticism from the artist Charles Guerin-a pupil of Cezanne's.

Goldthwaite returned to America in 1913 and reestablished herself in New York. She exhibited that year in the legendary Armory Show and within a few years became recognized for her paintings and prints of figures, landscapes, genre scenes, and still lifes-done in an expressive, Fauve-influenced style that explored both modern as well as more traditional, realistic representations. She exhibited prominently for the next several decades, and taught at the Art Students League from 1922 to 1945. RS

Biography courtesy of The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/charleston