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Anne Poor, is an American artist who painted combat scenes in World War II. A native of New York City, Ms Poor studied at the Art Students League while in high school, in the 1930's. She helped her stepfather, the artist Henry Varnum Poor, paint murals for the United States Justice Department and the Department of the Interior in Washington. While in the Women's Army Corps in 1943 she gained attention for her depictions of military life, including air evacuations of the wounded in the Pacific. The paintings were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. | |||||||
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