 Annie Cornelia Shane is primarily known as Annie Cornelia Shaw
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Growing up in Chicago, Annie Shaw became a painter, etcher and art
teacher. She showed early art talent indicated by her winning an
award for pencil drawing at age twelve. From 1868 to 1872, she
studied with Henry Chapman Ford, and in 1874, at the age of 22, opened a
studio in Chicago.
She traveled throughout the country, doing
plein-air painting, and also established a reputation for excellent
teaching at the Chicago Academy of Design, predecessor of the Art
Institute. In 1876, Shaw was elected to full membership of the
Academy, the first women to achieve that distinction. It is
thought that she learned etching from John
Vanderpoel at the Chicago Academy of Design when she was a student.
Between 1881 and 1884, she had a studio in New York City, and from 1884
to 1885 in Boston. "A solo exhibition and sale held at the Art
Institute of Chicago after her death included 241 oil paintings and 50
watercolors; of which very few can be found today. None of her
etchings are presently located."
Exhibition venues include Illinois State Fair, Centennial Exhibition,
Philadelphia, 1876; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, National Academy of Design, Bohemian Art Club in Chicago,
Salmagundi Club, American Watercolor Society, Society of American
Artists, Providence Art Club, Chicago Inter-State Industrial,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Boston Art Club, and Art
Institute of Chicago.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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