 Anna Hong (Mrs. Norman E.) Rutt is primarily known as Anna Emilie Helga Hong
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Anna Hong was a painter and an educator born Anna Emilie Hong, but was
often called Anna Helga Hong. She painted in acrylics, oils, and
watercolor, and was also a judge of flower shows and a flower
enthusiast.
Hong was born in Iowa in 1889. She studied at
Columbia University, Otis Art Institute, California School of Fine
Arts, University of Washington, University of California at Los
Angeles, and the Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. Hong was also known
to have studied under Armin Hansen during her academic career.
She
was a member of the Army Medical Corps in World War I. During the
1920s and 1930s, she traveled between Evanston, Illinois, and Los
Angeles, California. While living in Los Angeles she was a member
of the California Art Club and exhibited at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art in 1926.
Hong became the Art Supervisor for the San Bernardino public schools
and also lectured on art appreciation. She was head of the art
department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1929.
Hong married Norman Rutt in the 1930s and spent the years between 1938 and 1969 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Anna Hong died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1984.
Source:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
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Anna Rutt is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
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