Ann Cushing Gantz
1933 - 2012
Born in Dallas, Texas, prominent Dallas painter and teacher, Ann Cushing Gantz, grew up in Memphis, Tennessee before attending Newcomb College at Tulane University, where she earned a BFA. She returned to Dallas in 1955 to teach at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and exhibit her work at the Black Tulip Gallery. Ann flourished as a beloved art teacher who cultivated the talents of generations of students at "the barn" on the undeveloped land that would become Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane. In the late 1960s, she founded Cushing Galleries in the Quadrangle and was a driving force in the emerging Dallas art community. She created a private artists’ atelier as part of her teaching studio and regularly mounted juried student art shows. Ann's papers are cataloged as part of the Bywaters Archives of Texas Art at Southern Methodist University and the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
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