About Ann Hunt Spencer
Lived 1913 – 1972 (aged 58–59). Ann Hunt Spencer was an American painter.
Southington, Connecticut. Southington's U.S. Post Office with the mural Romance of Southington Ann Hunt Spencer Pratt (1913–1972) was an American painter. She is best known for her New Deal era mural in the Southington, Connecticut Post Office.
Biography Pratt née Spencer was born in 1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and studied at the National Academy of Design. The couple later divorced.
In 1942 Pratt painted the mural Romance of Southington for the Southington, Connecticut Post Office.The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA). She exhibited her work at the Berkshire Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Academy of Design.
She died on December 31, 1972, of complications from an aneurysm in Canaan, Connecticut.
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American artist
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Ann Hunt Spencer was born in 1913 in Toronto.
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Ann Hunt Spencer died on 31 December 1972 in Canaan.
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Ann Hunt Spencer was a painter.
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