Anne Elizabeth Rector

Anne Elizabeth Rector (June 26, 1899 – February 17, 1970) was an American artist.

Anne Elizabeth Rector
Born	June 26, 1899 Wheeling, West Virginia
Died	February 17, 1970 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Education	Art Students League of New York
Spouse	Edmund Duffy
Parent	Enoch J. Rector

Rector was the daughter of Enoch J. Rector and she attended the Art Students League of New York studying under John French Sloan.^[1] Ann also studied landscape painting under Andrew Dasburg.^[2] She married Edmund Duffy and they moved to New York City in 1948, when her husband began work for the Saturday Evening Post.^[3] She later headed Rector Studios that manufactured glass top tables. Her daughter married Ivan Chermayeff, the son of Serge Ivan Chermayeff.^[1]

Rector's childhood diaries were published in 2004. They had been found many years after Rector's death and described her life for the year of 1912.^[4][5]