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Anne West
Posted 11/14/06
Anne (Warner) West, 97 CHESTERTOWN, Md. - Anne (Warner) West of Chestertown died Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, in Heron Point in Chestertown. She was 97. Mrs. West was the oldest of five children born to …
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Anne West
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Anne (Warner) West, 97
CHESTERTOWN, Md. - Anne (Warner) West of Chestertown died Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, in Heron Point in Chestertown. She was 97.
Mrs. West was the oldest of five children born to the late Irving and Marian Tallman Warner.
She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She painted local landscapes of Eastern Shore life.
While in school in the 1930s, she won the prestigious Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship and painted landscapes throughout Europe including England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and France. She is best known for her paintings in oil and water color in the impressionist style.
Mrs. West and her husband, Charles M. West Jr., helped start the Academy of the Arts in Easton and were instrumental in the installation of the bronze statue of George Washington at Washington College, Chestertown.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Charles M. West Jr., in 1972.
She is survived by two sons, Charles M. West III and Thomas West; and three siblings, Emalea Warner Trentman and John Warner, both of Wilmington, Del. and Marian Warner Trotter of Charlottesville, Va.
Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday in Old Wye Church, Wye Mills.
CHESTERTOWN, Md. - Anne (Warner) West of Chestertown died Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, in Heron Point in Chestertown. She was 97.
Mrs. West was the oldest of five children born to the late Irving and Marian Tallman Warner.
She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She painted local landscapes of Eastern Shore life.
While in school in the 1930s, she won the prestigious Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship and painted landscapes throughout Europe including England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and France. She is best known for her paintings in oil and water color in the impressionist style.
Mrs. West and her husband, Charles M. West Jr., helped start the Academy of the Arts in Easton and were instrumental in the installation of the bronze statue of George Washington at Washington College, Chestertown.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Charles M. West Jr., in 1972.
She is survived by two sons, Charles M. West III and Thomas West; and three siblings, Emalea Warner Trentman and John Warner, both of Wilmington, Del. and Marian Warner Trotter of Charlottesville, Va.
Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday in Old Wye Church, Wye Mills.
