Anne Goldthwaite was an American

United States

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 artist and an advocate of women's rights and equal rights.

Biography

Goldthwaite was born in 1869 in Montgomery, the daughter of a captain in the confederate army. Goldthwaite studied under Walter Shirlaw

Walter Shirlaw

Walter Shirlaw was a Scottish-American artist.-Biography:Shirlaw was born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in 1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at the National Academy in 1861.He was elected an academician of the Chicago...

 in New York and went to Paris in 1907 and immediately joined the artistic crowd after meeting Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...

. She created many prints there before returning to America just prior to the outbreak of the first World War. She was in time for the Armory Show

Armory Show

Many exhibitions have been held in the vast spaces of U.S. National Guard armories, but the Armory Show refers to the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors...

 where her work was chosen to be exhibited.

From 1922 until 1944 she taught and took commissions from her residence in New York. Amongst her commissions was Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

. Every summer she would return to Montgomery where she was known for her pictures featuring African Americans.