well listed artist, 1865-1943, lived in Paris, California and Chicago, image area 24" X 20", on canvas, cleaned and relined in 2007, original frame.......Biography from the Archives of askART A figure and marine painter early in her career and a landscape, still life and portrait painter in her later period, Anna Stacey lived primarily in Chicago where her studio was in the Tree Studio Building on the city's North Side. However, she spent much time traveling back and forth between Illinois and California, and about 1915, was in Arizona where she painted the Grand Canyon. She lived in San Francisco in 1939 and Pasadena from 1941.She was born in Glasgow, Missouri, and began her studies at the Kansas City Art Association's School of Design. There she met the School Director, John Stacey, whom she married in 1891. She also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1893 to 1899, and traveling to Paris with her husband, attended the Académie Delecluse. This was followed by three more trips to Europe.She was a member of the Chicago Water Color Club, and won the Martin B. Cahn Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Society of Artists. Of Anna Stacey, it was written: "her marines and out-of-door figure paintings found considerable favor among the women's clubs that served as important art patrons in turn-of-the-century Chicago." (Greenhouse, 232)She exhibited in 1938 with the California Art Club and the Plein Air Painters of Southern California. Her work is in numerous collections including that of the Santa Fe Railroad and the Union League Club of Chicago, which owns the Pre-Raphelite figure painting, Tropies of the Field, which won the Cahn Prize. She died in Pasadena in 1943.EXHIBITIONS:Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, AIC, 1895, 97Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC, 1897-1933Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, AIC, 1895Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, AIC, 1901St Louis/Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904Corcoran Gallery, Washington DCPennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PhiladelphiaSolo, Chicago Galleries Association, 1927Chicago Society of Artists Exhibition, 1912Paintings by Anna L Stacey, AIC, 1905, 14Paintings by 8 artists, including John H and Anna Lee Stacey, AIC, 1921Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco (CA), 1915AWARDS:Prize, West End Woman's Club Salon, 1896Fortnightly Prize, AIC, 1902Martin Cahn Prize, AIC, 1902Marshall Field Prize, 1907Prize, Chicago Society of Artists Exhibition, 1912Logan Medal, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, 1921Knapp Memorial Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, AIC, 1922Clyde M Carr prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC, 1938MEMBERSHIPS:Palette Club, ChicagoChicago Water Color ClubArtist Guild of ChicagoCollections: Chicago Women's ClubKenwood College, ChicagoUnion League Club of ChicagoArche Club, ChicagoBridges Collection, ChicagoBrauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, INChristine Schwartz Collection, ChicagoTRAINING:Kansas City (MO) Art Association's School of DesignSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-99Academie Delecluse, Paris, 1900ItalyBelgiumSpainRelated To/Associated With: Student of John F Stacey in Kansas City, MOStudent of tonalist artist Leonard Ochtman, AIC, 1893-99Sources:Wendy Greenhouse, "Anna Lee Stacey", Union League Club of Chicago Art CollectionIllinois Women Artists ProjectDoris Dawdy, Artist of the American West, Volume II