Arnold was born on May 2, 1925, in Melrose, Massachusetts, where she was raised. Her father was Edmund Arnold, a civil engineer, and her mother was Fanny (née Doty) Arnold. She had two brothers, and together they grew up spending their summers on the coast of Massachusetts in Humarock.
She is a direct descendant of Benedict Arnold, and can trace her ancestry back to the Mayflower.
Ohio State University. University of New Hampshire.
Anne married the abstract painter Ernest Briggs in 1960. Arnold and Briggs bought a house and barn in Montville, Maine, in 1961, at the foot of Hogback Mountain. Briggs died in 1984. In 1946 Arnold received her Bachelor from the University of New Hampshire, and in 1947 an Master of Arts from Ohio State University.
She studied art from 1949 until 1953 at the Art Students League in New New York
Anne Arnold began creating sculptures of dogs, people and other domestic creatures in the 1950s. In 1960 she held her first one-person exhibition at New York"s Tanager Gallery.
From 1964 until 1988 Arnold showed her work at the Fischbach Gallery in New New York The Paul Creative Arts Center of the University of New Hampshire exhibited a full retrospective of her work in 1983.
During the 1970s Arnold created life-size, and bigger than life-size sculptures.
She made them by wrapping canvas around wooden armatures. After Arnold"s husband Ernie Briggs" death in 1984 she worked mostly with watercolor and pencil on sketches made outdoors in Maine. In 2006 the Alexandre Gallery in New York began to represent Arnold"s work.
In 2012 and in 2014 the Alexandre Gallery held one-person shows of her work.
Arnold served on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 1981 until 2010. She was also an associate of the National Academy of Design in New New York
After receiving her Master of Arts from Ohio State University in 1947 Arnold taught drawing, painting, and art history for two years at Geneseo College in New New York Beginning in 1971, and for the following 20 years, Arnold taught sculpture at Brooklyn College.
She also taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Arnold"s works are in several museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Jean"s Legs II), the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New New York Arnold died on June 20, 2014, of natural causes, in her New York City studio at the age of 89.
