Anne Eisner Putnam (1911–1967) was an abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art, originally from New York where she also died.
She and her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953) met in the USA in 1945 and lived together on Martha's Vineyard and in New York City.
Her husband was a Harvard graduate and student of anthropology who, beginning in the 1930s, established what became known as Camp Putnam along the Epulu River in the Belgian Congo.
Among the Putnams’ many outsiders, both tourists and researchers, was anthropologist Colin Turnbull who later authored The Forest People about The Mbuti Pygmies: Change and Adaptation.
She died of cancer in New York City in 1967 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY.