Anna Huntington Stanley

Anna Huntington Stanley (April 20, 1864 – February 25, 1907) was an American Impressionist artist. Stanley's work can be found in numerous institutional collections, including The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Telfair Museum of Art, the Taft Museum of Art, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and exhibited in the Singer Museum. Early life Anna Stanley was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1864 to David Sloan Stanley, a US Army Brigadier General, and Anna Maria Wright. She and her six siblings were primarily cared for by their mother. Due to David Sloan Stanley's military career, the Stanley family moved several times after the end of the Civil War and lived in South Dakota, Detroit, Michigan (1874), New York City (1876), Texas (1884), and Washington, DC. From 1878-1882, Stanley attended the Buffalo Female Academy in New York. There, she received instruction from Ammi Merchant Farnham, an American painter known for his landscapes. Some of Farham's influence can be seen in Stanley's later work.