ANN LINDENMUTH FISK (1929-2009) Watercolor on paper, signed lower mid, Measures 9,5" x 13" w/f 18" x 21"Ann Warren Lindenmuth was born in Newton, Massachusetts on September 12, 1929, the daughter of artists Elisabeth Boardman Warren and Tod Lindenmuth. She painted throughout her life, primarily creating watercolors, pen-and-ink drawings, and pictures combining the two media. She also did oil paintings, block prints, and relief carvings. Many of her paintings depict villages or individual buildings, often with whimsical ornamentation. Occasionally her compositions included landscapes, waterfront scenes, and still lives.Her parents lived and operated a gallery in St. Augustine, Florida during the winters, and she graduated from Ketterlinus High School there in 1947. The family spent summers in Provincetown until 1940, when they moved to Rockport. Here she met her future husband, Charles Fisk.The couple got married on July 2, 1950 and moved to California where she received her B.A. in Design in 1951. They later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where both worked for the Holtkamp Organ Company, and then to North Andover, Massachusetts when Charles bought into a partnership in the Andover Organ Company.In 1961, the Fisks, now including two children, moved back to Rockport and Charles founded C.B. Fisk, Inc. a pipe organ company. The couple divorced in 1977 and Charles died in 1983. Ann remained in Rockport until her death, residing in the home in Pigeon Cove that she and Charles had designed.She was a life-long member of the Rockport Art Association. From 1983 to 1993 she served as the organization's Executive Director, and was involved in the Rockport Chamber Music Festival's first seasons, which were held at the Art Association, and in the Town's annual Christmas Pageant.In the late 1980's Ann began leading non-instructional painting tours under the name Traveling Paintbrush. Over the years she led more than two dozen of these trips, to picturesque areas of Europe, the Mediterranean, the British Isles, and the American Southwest.A local political activist, she won a seat on the selectboard in 1967, and nearly three decades before recycling became standard for Massachusetts communities, she created and operated a paper recycling program, personally driving to homes and businesses all over town to pick up bundles of paper. Soon after, she expanded the program to include glass and aluminum cans. She was active in land conservation matters, the library renovation and in helping restore and augment the town's museum collection of paintings by Rockport artists.

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