Background
Thieme, Anthony was born on February 20, 1888 in Rotterdam, Holland. Son of Karel and Alida Cornelia (Lans) Thieme.
Thieme, Anthony was born on February 20, 1888 in Rotterdam, Holland. Son of Karel and Alida Cornelia (Lans) Thieme.
Student Academy of Fine Arts, Rotterdam, 1902-1904, Royal Academy, The Hague, 1905, Scuola di Belli Arti, Torino, 1909-1910. Pupil of Garlobini and Guiseppe Mancini.
Came to the United States, 1917, naturalized, 1935. Apprentice artist in Dusseldorf, Germany, 1905-1908. Designer and painter of stage settings in the United States, 1917-1927.
Represented by seascapes and landscapes in Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Pittsfield (Massachusetts) Museum, Albany (New York) Museum of History and Art, Dayton (O.) The Art Institute of Chicago, City of New Haven (Connecticut) art collection, State University of Iowa Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Beach Memorial collection (Storrs, Connecticut), Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut Awards: 1st landscape prize, Gloucester Art Association, 1928.
Springfield Art Association, 1928. Springfield Art League prize, 1928.
Shaw prize, Salmagundi Club, 1929 and 1931. Delano prize, New York Water Color Club, 1930.
Marine prize, North Shore Art Association, 1930.
Atheneum prize, Connecticut Academy of Fine Art, 1930. Mr. and Mistress Burton Mansfield prize, New Haven Paint and Clay Club. Lucien Powell award; Citizens Jury award, Los Angeles Museum, Purchase prize, Springville High Art exhibition Purchase prize, Buck Hill Falls Art Association, 1938.
First prize Autumn exhibition Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, 1945.
Gold medal North.E. Contemporary Show, Boston, 1944, 47, 48. Exhibited Bernheim Jeune Galleries, Paris, 1950.
Address: 6 South Saint, Rockport, Massachusetts. (winter) Saint Augustine, Florida
Anthony Thieme was a full member of the American Watercolor Society, Art Alliance of America, the Salmagundi Club, the Boston Art Club, North Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, New York Water Color Club, Art Alliance of Philadelphia and the National Arts Club.
Married Lillian M. Beckett, 1929.