Ann Purcell Furniture

Ann Purcell is a nationally recognized and highly respected artist working in Redhook, Brooklyn. Her paintings are represented in over 17 major museums in the United States, including the National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., Santa Barbara Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mint Museum in North Carolina, and New Orleans Museum of Art. She has the respect and support of many prominent art museum directors and contemporary curators. She has had numerous solos and group exhibitions at prestigious galleries around the country, including the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City; the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in New York and London; the Dart Gallery, Chicago; the Hokin Gallery in Chicago, Miami and Palm Beach; the Osuna Gallery in Washington D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Miami; the Misrachi Gallery in Mexico City, and most recently, Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City. Her works are in both prominent private and corporate collections, including the ATT, Vesti Industries in Cambridge, the "Art in the Embassies Program" of the U.S. State Department; Pepsico Collection, New York; Philadelphia Life Insurance; Capitol Holding Corporation, Louisville; Continental Bank of Chicago; international law offices of Mayer, Brown and Platt, Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, Tokyo; and Debevoise and Plimpton, Washington, D.C.; the Embassy of Italy, and numerous other collections. Purcell taught painting, drawing and art history for many years at the Corcoran College of Arts and Design, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and Parsons School of Art and Design in New York. She has frequently been a guest lecturer and artist-in-residence at various universities and a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting and the Lester Hereward Cooke Foundation Grant for Mid-Career Achievement in Painting (from The National Gallery of Art).