Clapp, Anne F.

Anne Fanshaw Clapp was born in 1910 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Interested in both science and art, she learned to paint and later pursued a career in paintings and paper conservation. After working at the Fogg Art Museum, the Worcester Art Museum, the Institute of Jamaica, Independence National Historic Park, and the Intermuseum Conservation Association, Anne joined the staff at Winterthur Museum as print and paper conservator. At Winterthur from 1970-1981, she cared for the museum and library collections and taught paper conservation to the fellows in the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). After retiring, she continued to perform paper conservation at Winterthur in the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, taught classes at ICCROM in Rome, gave talks, and maintained her own private practice conserving both paintings and paper items for individual clients and museums. Anne wrote Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper. She died on May 11, 2000.