A listed Missouri painter known for his paintings of landscapes and
coastal views, John Sites Ankeney was born in 1870 in Xenia, Ohio, he
studied at the Art Student's League in New York, as well as in Paris and
other parts of Europe.
He became a professor at the University of Missouri,
and later was the curator and director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas.
He exhibited his works widely in the Midwest as well as New York and
Chicago. He died in 1946. There is a Salmagundi Club, Thumb Box Exhibition
label affixed verso.
