Artists

Anna Duer Irving

American, 1873-1957

Anna Duer Irving was born in 1873 in Madison, Wisconsin and died in 1957 in Bronx, New York.  She studied at the Oldfield School in Baltimore, Maryland, and at the Art Students League in New York City where her teachers included Robert Henri, George Bellows, Charles Hawthorne, Arthur Wesley Dow and John C. Johansen.

She was a member of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Pen and Brush Club and the National Academy of Woman Artists.

Exhibition venues included the the Society of Independent Artists 1917-1918, 1920; New Haven Paint and Clay Club, 1929 (prize); 1949-1951; Pen and Brush Club, 1948-1952, (prizes, 1933-34, 1937-38, 1944, 1951); and the National Association of Women Artists, 1949-51.