Anne Coe is widely known for her sometimes fanciful, sometimes
disturbing interpretations of life on earth. She studied art
independently in Europe and at the University of Puerto Rico, and she
received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in
1980. She has had the Cover articles in the Southwest Art (June 2005), Wildlife Art News and Art Today as well as a number of newspapers and periodicals. She also illustrated Here Is the Southwestern Desert for Hyperion Publishing. She is featured in several books: Drawn To Yellowstone by Peter Hassrick, Leading the West: 100 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors by James Haggerty and Humor In Art
by Nicholas Roukes. Her work is included in numerous public and private
collections such as the Whitney Museum of Western Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Glasgow Museum of Contemporary Art, Eiteljorg Museum,
Midwest Museum of American Art, Museo de bellas Arte, Guadalajara,
Mexico, The Figge Museum and McDonald's Corporation. Ms. Coe is
involved in many community arts and conservation projects. She is
co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Superstition Area Land Trust.
She is on several boards and commissions and has been appointed by two
Arizona governors to serve on the State Land Conservation Advisory
Board.
Ms. Coe is a fourth generation Arizonan. She grew up on a
ranch in the southern part of the state. Currently a Professor of Art
at Centeral Arizona College, she lives on the slopes of the
Superstition Mountains in the high Sonoran Desert.
