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Anne Steele Marsh

American painter and printmaker, 1901–1995

BiographyBorn in New Jersey, Marsh was the daughter of popular illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele. She studied design in the School of Art at Cooper Union and weaving and occupational therapy at schools run by the YWCA in New York City. She worked as an instructor of occupational therapy until 1925. That year she married James R. Marsh, a designer and manufacturer of decorative wrought iron and brother of painter Reginald Marsh. By the mid-1930s, she was exhibiting watercolors, oil paintings, and wood engravings in commercial galleries and showing with the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She worked in a realist style, chronicling life around her.

By 1950, she was focused on arts administration, serving as the first president of Assocated Artists of New Jersey and working with her husband to transform a grist mill into a center for arts and crafts in Clinton, New Jersey.

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