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This page was an abandoned draft that has now been declined or rejected as duplicating an existing article. Any details in this draft that are not in the article may be added to the article. Because the author of this draft may be no longer active, any comments should be addressed to one of the recent reviewers. This draft should be allowed to be deleted six months after this date. This draft should be compared against the article, and the article expanded if appropriate. Robert McClenon (talk) 07:05, 23 February 2019 (UTC)}} Ann Weaver Norton Ann Weaver Norton (1905-1982) was an American artist and sculptor. BiographyAnn Weaver was born on May 2, 1905 in Selma, Alabama to William Weaver and Edith Vaughan. As a child she attended public school in Dallas County and in 1923, Weaver enrolled at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., majoring in Bible to prepare herself to become a missionary. By the time she had graduated and returned to Selma, however, Weaver had decided to go to New York to study art. To raise money for her studies, she wrote and illustrated books for children, similar to the "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Notably, three of these, “Frawg”, “Boochy’s Wings” and “Pappy King”, were published in 1930, 1931 and 1932 respectively. At the age of 19, she left home to study art in New York where she earned the highest award in sculpture from Cooper Union Art School. While in New York, she spent five years as an apprentice to several artists, including John Hovannes, Leon Kroll, Jose de Creft, and was studio assistant to Alexander Archipenko. She also participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Among the many influences in her life, Ann Weaver's Aunt, Clara Weaver Parrish, had a profound impact on her as an artist. Clara Weaver Parrish was a renowned etcher, she designed mosaics, stained glass windows and murals and became affiliated with Tiffany Stained Glass and Decorating Company. Working together with Louis C. Tiffany, she helped design the seven-panel window in St. Michael and All Angels Church in New York City, considered by Tiffany to be one of the finest windows in America. In 1942, Ann Weaver took a teaching position at the Norton Gallery and School of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she and the Gallery's founder, Ralph Norton became close friends. When they married in 1948, Weaver resigned from her teaching position and focused on her sculpture, working in a studio on the Norton estate. In 1977, Weaver turned the estate into a sculpture garden where her work could be displayed in an outdoor setting. When she died of leukemia in 1982, family members brought her ashes back to be interred in Selma. During her career she was the recipient of two Carnegie Traveling Fellowships and participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Schneider Gallery, Rome, Musée Rodin, Paris, Bodley Gallery, New York, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, Lowe Museum of Art, Miami, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. The Norton home, located at 253 Barcelona Road, designed by Marion Sims Wyeth, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Now operated as a private foundation, the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens offers exhibitions and occasional workshops. More than one hundred of Norton’s works are on display in the house, studio, and gardens, including nine of her gigantic sculptures. References{{ansg.org}}
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