Anne Elizabeth Rector

{{Short description|American painter}}

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| birth_date = June 26, 1899

| birth_place = Wheeling, West Virginia

| death_date = February 17, 1970

| death_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico

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| education = Art Students League of New York

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Anne Elizabeth Rector (June 26, 1899 – February 17, 1970) was an American artist.

Rector was the daughter of Enoch J. Rector and she attended the Art Students League of New York studying under John French Sloan. Ann also studied landscape painting under Andrew Dasburg.{{cite book |last=Bacon |first=Peggy |author-link=Peggy Bacon|title=Peggy Bacon, Personalities and Places: Exhibition at the National Collection. |year= 1975 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKQjAAAAMAAJ }} She married Edmund Duffy and they moved to New York City in 1948, when her husband began work for the Saturday Evening Post.{{cite news |title=Edmund Duffy, Cartoonist Dies. Won Three Pulitzer Prizes White With Baltimore Sun. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/13/archives/edmund-duffy-cartoonist-dies-won-three-pulitzer-prizes-white-with.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 13, 1962 |access-date=September 25, 2007}} She later headed Rector Studios that manufactured glass top tables. Her daughter Sara Anne Duffy{{Cite web |title=Paid Notice: Deaths CHERMAYEFF, SARA ANNE DUFFY |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E0D9143AF934A15750C0A9609D8B63 |access-date=2025-06-10 |website=query.nytimes.com |language=en}} was the first wife of designer Ivan Chermayeff, the son of Serge Ivan Chermayeff.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Edmund Duffy Is Dead; Cartoonist's Widow Was 70. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/18/archives/mrs-edmund-duffy-is-dead-cartoonists-widow-was-70.html|work=The New York Times |date=February 18, 1970|access-date=September 25, 2007}}

Rector's childhood diaries were published in 2004. They had been found many years after Rector's death and described her life for the year of 1912.{{cite book |last=Rector |first=Anne Elizabeth |title=Anne Elizabeth's Diary: A Young Artist's True Story |year=2004 |url=https://archive.org/details/anneelizabethsdi00rect |isbn=0-316-07204-4 }}[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-elizabeth-rector/anne-elizabeths-diary/ "Anne Elizabeth's Diary"], Kirkus Reviews, June 1st, 2004.