Editing Anna Ancher (section)

==Career==
Anna Ancher was considered to be one of the great Danish pictorial artists by virtue of her abilities as a character painter and colorist.<ref>[http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Danmark_1850-1910/Anna_Kirstine_Ancher "Anna Ancher"], ''Den Lille Danske''. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 16 October 2011.</ref> Her art found its expression in Nordic art's modern breakthrough toward a more truthful depiction of reality, e.g. in ''Blue Ane'' (1882) and ''The Girl in the Kitchen'' (1883–1886).<ref name=anchershus>[http://www.anchershus.dk/anna_ancher.html "Anna Ancher"], ''Michael og Anna Anchers Hus''. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 16 October 2011.</ref>

=== Style ===
Ancher preferred to paint interiors and simple themes from the everyday lives of the Skagen people, especially fishermen, women, and children. She was intensely preoccupied with exploring light and color, as in ''Interior with Clematis'' (1913). She also created more complex compositions such as ''A Funeral'' (1891). Anna Ancher's works often represented Danish art abroad. Ancher has been known for portraying similar civilians from the Skagen art colony in her works, including an old blind woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hirschsprung.dk/en/collection/theme/samling-skagensmalerne|title=The Skagen Painters - Den Hirschsprungske Samling|website=hirschsprung.dk|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>

Anna Ancher has been praised for her painting entitled, ''Sørg'' (1902), which depicts a blonde long-haired, naked woman on one side of the work, a funerary cross in the middle, and an older pious woman draped in black clothing. The religious context of the painting could be related to Ancher's own religious upbringing. Her portrayal of the female nude is unique for the time, given that this woman is not overtly sexualized and created solely as an object for the male gaze, as was typical among contemporary paintings of female nudes. Scholar Alice R. Price asserts that this painting is a reflection of Ancher's position as a woman of faith living in the traditional bohemian lifestyle of artists, that Price interprets as indicative of an ongoing inner conflict for the artist.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Price|first=Alice Rudy|date=2016-06-22|title=Loss, the Female Nude, and Anna Ancher's Sorg: A Woman's Own Modernism|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-467681151/loss-the-female-nude-and-anna-ancher-s-sorg-a-woman-s|journal=Scandinavian Studies|volume=88|issue=2|pages=97–128|issn=0036-5637|jstor=10.5406/scanstud.88.2.0097 }}</ref>

=== Recognition ===
She exhibited her work at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Palace of Fine Arts]] at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Nichols">{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt10b.html#ancher|access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref> She was awarded the [[Ingenio et Arti]] medal in 1913,<ref name="litteraturpriser">{{Cite web
 |title=For videnskab og kunst medaljen Ingenio et arti
 |trans-title=For science and art: the Ingenio et Arti medal
 |work=Litterære priser, medaljer, legater mv [Literary prizes, medals, scholarships, etc]
 |url=http://www.litteraturpriser.dk/ietarti.htm |access-date=2010-09-05
 |type= List of recipients. Self-published, but with references
|language=da}}</ref> and the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in 1924.<ref>[http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/680/article/92/ Kvinfo.dk] Article on Kvinfo (a Danish encyclopedia about Danish women) about Anne Ancher</ref>

Ancher was included in the 2018 exhibit, ''Women in Paris 1850-1900''.<ref name="Madeline">{{cite book |last1=Madeline |first1=Laurence |title=Women artists in Paris, 1850-1900 |date=2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300223934}}</ref>