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ANN TANKSLEY (1934 - )
Bonitas Flores
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Oil on canvas, mounted to masonite board, 2003. 254x203mm; 10x8 inches. Signed and dated in
oil, lower left.
Provenance: private collection, NewYork.
Ann Tanksley, born in Pittsburgh and now a resident of New York, is a figurative painter and
printmaker who has developed a large following.A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology
(now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, she also studied at the Art Students League, Parsons
School of Design, the New School for Social Research and the Printmaking Workshop. She has
received several corporate commissions from the Coors Brewing Company, Pepsi Cola Company,
Absolut Vodka, and Colgate-Palmolive. Her work is in the collections of the Studio Museum in
Harlem, the Johnson Publishing Company and the Hewitt Collection.
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