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
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