Annie W. S. Siebert | |||||
Birth Name: | Anne Ware Sabine | ||||
Birth Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||||
Death Place: | Columbus, Ohio | ||||
Nationality: | American | ||||
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Field: | Painting | ||||
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Annie Ware Sabine Siebert (1864-1947) was an American painter known for her miniature paintings.[1]
Annie Sabine was born in 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Hylas Sabine, a politician, and Annie Ware Sabine.[2] [3] [4] She grew up in Marysville, Ohio, and Richwood, Ohio.[3] Her brother was Wallace Clement Sabine.[2]
She studied at the Ohio State University, where she earned her first degree in 1884 and was the first woman to earn a master of arts degree in 1886.[3] [5] She went on study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the first woman to earn an architecture degree in 1888.[3] [5] She also studied art at Harvard University.[5]
She was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters and exhibited her work at the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair.[6]
Some of her subjects included:[3]
On August 16, 1893,[7] she married Wilbur Henry Siebert.[3] [5] She had a foster son, John F. Marshall, and a foster daughter, Mrs. Willie L. Howie.[3]
She died on November 7, 1947, at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, of a coronary occlusion.[5] [3]
In 1958 a women's residence hall at Ohio State University was named "Siebert Hall" in her honor.[8]