Anita Thacher

1940–2017

Introduction

She earned her bachelor’s degree from the New School for Social Research in English literature and studied painting at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Today, her work can be found in the public collections of New York’s MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Belgium.

Roles

Artist

ULAN identifier

500083348

Names

Anita Thacher

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