Anne Carleton (1878-1968)

Anne Carleton was born in Atkinson, New Hampshire, and came to Boston to study painting at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, an institution that specialized in the training of art teachers for the state’s public school system. From 1913 until her passing in 1968, she worked for the Lynn, Marblehead and Needham districts, yet she pursued her own painting in the summers and chose to study and later teach at Charles Woodbury’s Summer School of Drawing and Painting in Ogunquit, Maine. Woodbury’s influence on Carleton’s work can be seen in the vivid palette and fluid brushwork of the landscapes and beach scenes she created during these sojourns. While in Ogunquit, she befriended and painted with notable women artists Gertrude Fiske, Mabel May Woodward and Jane Peterson.

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