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Distinguished Citizen 1987

Anne Wenner Osteen (1934) Distinguished Citizen 1987

Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990)

Ann has gained national and international recognition for achievements in art, fashion, and preservation since moving to Savannah, Georgia.

Ann Wenner Osteen is Peter Wenner’s Aunt. From Peter: She is 83 years old, but she still paints and makes jewelry. She's primarily a painter and sculptor, but she also was involved with homes & gardens in Savannah.

From Savaannah Morning News: Hersh: A changing of the guard Posted: Sunday, September 08, 2002 "Sunday Painter," a new exhibit at Kim Iocovozzi Fine Art, signals a changing of the guard in Savannah's art scene, ushering in a new era of creativity, energy and vision. This eclectic show combines a retrospective of more than four decades of paintings by Savannah's legendary artist Ann Osteen with new work by Marcus Kenney and Zacharias Vincent, two of the city's most talented emerging artists. Although gallery owner Kim Iocovozzi originally conceived of "Sunday Painter" as a way to demonstrate the conceptual and aesthetic connections between Savannah's old guard and new guard, "Sunday Painter" instead highlights the remarkable differences between Savannah's established and emerging artists. Osteen, who is perhaps Savannah's most widely collected artist, has exhibited her work at the High Museum in Atlanta and has won the Governor's Award for her outstanding commitment to art. At 70, she continues to paint from her studio overlooking the Savannah River, finding inspiration in voices resonating from downtown churches on a Sunday morning and container ships cruising past her window. From early abstract work like "Free," which she painted in 1966 as a way to imagine a visual utopia in which the races would join together in a glorious patchwork of color and form, to more recent paintings like "Nautilus," which explores the intricate shape of her favorite sea shell, Osteen's career has been bold and diverse, experimenting with a range of subjects, styles and perspectives. "Sunday Painter" features a somewhat inconsistent assortment of eight paintings that loosely trace the evolution of her career. In the end, "Sunday Painter" features three talented artists who are, of course, anything but Sunday painters. Each of these three artists share a passion for creating art that is political, psychological and spiritual, enriching and expanding Savannah's ever-changing art scene.