Anne was one of ten children by John and Susan (Kubicek) Kutka, who had immigrated from what later became Czechoslovakia.
However, a month later The University of Oregon offered David a job teaching drawing, painting, and lithography.
The couple moved to Eugene, Oregon and Anne took the East Coast urban perspective with her.
In her works she tried to focus on the characteristics and features of the people and the events of the college town in which she now resided.
She created more than 650 oils, drawings, watercolors, and prints in her lifetime and is revered as one of the Northwest's best artists.