Though she spent much of her career at a remote artists’ colony in Denmark, Ancher also travelled widely, studying under Puvis de Chavannes in Paris in the 1880s. This survey argues that both local and international influences informed her radically modern use of colour. Find out more from the Statens Museum for Kunst’s website.
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Blind Woman (1883–85), Anna Ancher. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
A Young Girl Plucking a Swan (1900), Anna Ancher. Photo: Niels Fabæk/Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
A Young Girl Plaiting Her Hair (1901), Anna Ancher. Photo: Jakob Skou-Hansen
Harvest Time (1901), Anna Ancher. Photo: Ole Akhøj
Study of a seamstress in blue (n.d.), Anna Ancher. Photo: Skagens Kunstmuseer
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