biographie de John Sites ANKENEY (1870-1946)

Birth place: Xenia, OH

Death place: Columbia, MO

Addresses: Columbia, MO/Estes Park, CO

Profession: Painter, lecturer, teacher, writer

Studied: Univ. Missouri; Académie Julian, Paris, with Lefebvre and Robert Fleury, 1893; …cole des Beaux Arts; Atelier Aman-Jean; ASL with Twachtman, Wm. M. Chase, F.V. DuMond, A. Saint Gaudens; H.L. Ross

Exhibited: watercolor, NOAA, 1936 (prize); High Mus. Art; New Orleans Art Lg.; Chicago Gal. Assoc.; Univ. Missouri, 1944; S.Indp.A.

Member: NAC; Am. APL; Col. AA; Am. Fed. A.; Chicago Gal. Assn.

Work: Univ. Missouri Mus. Art and Arch.; Univ. Missouri logo; Bethany College, Lindsborg, KA; Lindenwood College, St. Charles, MO; Carl Milles College, Cranbrook, MI; Christian College, Columbia, MO.; State Hist. Missouri

Comments: WPA administrator, 1933. Painted many landscapes of Southwest and Rocky Mountains as well as some portraits of friends and family. After retiring, Ankeney spent a year studying art and painting in Mexico. Positions: supervisor of drawing, Carthage School System, MO and Kansas City Schools, 1899; t., Univ. Missouri, Columbia, 1901-29; dir., Dallas MFA, 1929; art dept. consultant, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, 1935-37.

Sources: WW40; exhib. cat., Missouri Artists (Th. McCormick, 1984); add'l info courtesy Washington County Mus. of FA, Hagerstown, MD.