Anne Packard

Anne Packard
Born1933 (age 90–91)
Alma materBard College
OccupationArtist
RelativesMax Bohm (grandfather)

Anne Packard (born 1933) is an American artist best known for atmospheric seascape paintings.

Biography

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Packard was born in 1933 in Hyde Park, New York.[1] While growing up in Hyde Park, she spent her childhood summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[2]

She comes from a family of artists, including her grandmother, Zella, and grandfather, Max Bohm, a 19th- and 20th-century romantic impressionist who was one of the founding members of an artist colony in Provincetown.[2] She studied at Bard College in New York, and moved to Provincetown in 1977, where she apprenticed under Philip Malicoat.[2]

Her daughters Cynthia Packard[3] and Leslie Packard[4] are also notable painters. Her son, Michael Packard, is the only person in recorded history to have been inside a whale's mouth and survive; he was freed as the whale dislodged him from its mouth.[5][6]

Anne Packard opened the doors to Packard Gallery in 1988. The building is located in the Gallery District in Provincetown and was once home to a Christian Science Church.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Anne Packard | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. ^ a b c "Anne Packard". Packard Gallery. Archived from the original on 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  3. ^ "Cynthia Packard Wages War to Find the Right Lines". 29 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Leslie Packard".
  5. ^ "Lobster Diver Q&A: Who the Man Swallowed up by a Whale Wants to Play Him in a Movie". 13 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Can a Whale Swallow a Human in Whole?". 17 September 2015.
  7. ^ "The Gallery - Packard Gallery". 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
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