Ann Cushing Gantz
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Ann Cushing Gantz Ann Cushing Gantz is a painter, printmaker and teacher whose work is in the collections of sixteen American museums, including the Dallas, Denver, Providence and Boston, as well as many private and corporate collections, including Southland Life, Johnson and Johnson and Texas Instruments. Her papers and records of work are preserved in both the Art Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution and the Bywaters Archives of Texas Art at SMU. She graduated with honors from Newcomb College, Tulane University, in New Orleans with a double-major degree, BFA, in painting and printmaking. She worked with Hans Hoffman and Jackson Pollock, and summered at the Memphis Academy of Arts. Ann's first one man show was at the now-definct Black Tulip Gallery in Dallas only six months after graduation, one of her collectors fro m that show, Mrs Harry Rolnick, prevailed upon her to try teaching a class at the Rolnick home. Ann thus began her two most favored careers...painting and teaching. She taught at the old Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School, until it s demise, and she then taught and exhibited at Cushing Galleries, which she owned with four partners for eleven years. During this time there were many one-man show s around the country. She has had over twenty-one person exhibitions and has been included in at least forty group shows, both locally and nationally. Her annual student show in September has raised thousands of dollars for charity from the auctioning of class projects. Studio: Ann Gantz's Website  NEXT ARTIST ALL ARTISTS
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