Anne Arnold

Anne Arnold, (May 2, 1925- June 20, 2014) was a sculptor best known for her whimsical life-size and sometimes larger than life-size sculptures of animals and people rendered in wood, ceramic, or softer materials such as canvas and Dynel, and resins.

Early life and family
Arnold was born on May 2, 1925, in Melrose, Massachusetts, where she was raised. Her father was Edmund Arnold, a civil engineer, and her mother was Fanny (née Doty) Arnold. She had two brothers, and together they grew up spending their summers on the coast of Massachusetts in Humarock. She is a direct descendant of Benedict Arnold, and can trace her ancestry back to the Mayflower. Anne married the abstract painter Ernest Briggs in 1960.

After Arnold's husband Ernie Briggs' death in 1984 she worked mostly with watercolor and pencil on sketches made outdoors in Maine.<ref name="Artists' Estates" />

In 2006 the Alexandre Gallery in New York began to represent Arnold's work. In 2012 and in 2014 the Alexandre Gallery held one-person shows of her work.<ref name="The Republican Journal" />
Board memberships
Arnold served on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 1981 until 2010.<ref name="The Republican Journal" /> She was also elected to be a member of the National Academy in New York.<ref name="The Republican Journal" />
Teaching career
After receiving her MA from Ohio State University in 1947 Arnold taught drawing, painting, and art history for two years at Geneseo College in New York.<ref name="Artists' Estates" /> Beginning in 1971, and for the following 20 years, Arnold taught sculpture at Brooklyn College. She also taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="The Republican Journal" />

Museums
Arnold's works are in several museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.<ref name="The Republican Journal" />

Death
Arnold died on June 20, 2014, of natural causes, in her New York City studio at the age of 89.<ref name="The Republican Journal" />

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