Ann Collins

[3] She grew up in a remote area of Colorado where buffalo ran wild on the 25 mile tract of land.

She began drawing ponies as a young girl and at the age of 14 went to school at Mount St. Scholastica Academy, a Benedictine convent in Cañon City, Colorado.

[1][3] Her professors encouraged her to pursue oil painting and two years later had her first exhibit on the lawn of the Saratoga gambling casino, Piping Rock, which her father ran with Red Dywer.

[3] She became interested in painting racing colts in Florida at Hialeah and at Oriental Park in Havana.

Collins held an exhibition in 1941 at Saratoga, New York, and sold paintings to Al Sabath and Col. E. R. Bradley.