Anne Wienholt Takashige

Anne Wienholt Takashige, an Australian artist, died on March 27, 2018 in San Rafael, CA at the age of 97. She had lived in Marin County for the past 48 years.

Anne grew up on :ash Pool Farm in Queensland, Australia and attended Frensham Boarding School south of Sydney. Her mother, Enid Sydney Jones Wienholt, was a horticulturalist and patron of the arts. Her father, Arnold :ienholt, was a cattle grazier and politician who served in the Australian Parliament and was renowned for his military feats in Africa during the Boer War and two world wars.

In 1945, Anne traveled to the United States on an art scholarship to study painting at the Art Student’s League in New York City. She was a regular participant at Atelier 17, the print making workshop led by Stanley :illiam Hayter, which was a base for many well known European artists during the ::II era. :hile studying, she met her husband-to-be Masato Takashige, a merchant seaman, master carpenter, and fellow artist. In 1953, the couple moved to the Shawangunk Mountains in New York where they built a home and raised three daughters.

Anne was a prolific artist, highly skilled in drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney, New York, and San Francisco, and appears in collections at the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. Anne was technically proficient in each step of her craft: she built frames for paintings, fired clay ceramics, and created bronze sculptures in the lost wax method.

Anne had an adventurous and restless spirit. She traveled widely and trekked the Sierra Mountains, the Andes and, in later years, the Himalayas. Anne was a bird watcher and gardener who could identify many bird, plant and fungus species. Throughout her life, she actively supported wildlife and environmental conservation.

Anne is survived by her three daughters and two granddaughters.