Annie Traquair Lang

Annie Traquair Lang (September 8, 1885 – November 8, 1918) was an American Impressionist painter, known for experimental impasto brushstrokes and jewel-tone abstracted forms.

She exhibited portraits, still lifes and landscapes at two dozen venues in Europe and the U.S., and institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired her works.

She traveled widely during the summers, painting views of North Carolina, Venice, Florence, Bruges and Carmel, California.

Among her other sitters were the arts educator J. Liberty Tadd, the artist Helen Thurlow, the actress Maude Adams, the writer Mary Hunter Austin and the painter and poet Countess Gabriella Fabbricotti.

In 1918, after a yearlong trip through Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, Lang returned to New York with plans to volunteer at battlefield canteens in France.

Her other Pennsylvania venues included the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (1911, 1913, 1914) and the State Normal School in West Chester, Pa. (1915).

[10] Five of Lang's paintings—the Tadd portrait; Tea Time Abroad (c. 1912); A Bit of Venice (1913); From Mr. Chase's Studio Window, Bruges, Belgium (c. 1912); and Isabella Lothrop (c. 1912)--have been featured in a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts show, Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women's Artistic Networks at PAFA (July 8, 2021 – July 24, 2022).