Anna Lipworth was an indiscriminate lover of the human race. In a world increasingly riven by hatred and the petty quarrels of politics and faith, Anna roved like a mercenary peacemaker who could see a trace of divine in a weed or the lowliest of men. Her hopes for a more just and humane society were never depleted. She was a creative, questing soul whose love of art, poetry and philosophy knew no boundaries. On her cluttered coffee table would be books on topics as diverse as elm trees and mysticism.

Anna's life spanned continents and cultures. She was born in the Bronx, to parents who emigrated from Russia. She studied at City College, then a cauldron of progressive politics, and graduated with a degree in clinical psychology. She joined the Ethical Culture Society, where she found herself among kindred spirits steeped in the heady intellectual bohemianism of the late 1950s. Her love of the arts led her to study modern dance with Martha Graham and oil painting at the Art Students League in New York and with the Hans Hoffman Studios in Provincetown. At a graduate student party on the Upper West Side she met a young physicist from South Africa named Edgar Lipworth, then a student at Columbia. The couple married.

Anna's spirit blossomed in the 1960s, a decade that matched her optimism and bright hope for humanity. She gave birth to two children, David and Vara. The family moved to Massachusetts, when her husband accepted a teaching position at Brandeis University.

Anna spent many years in different parts of Newton, most happily and in the end in a small apartment overlooking her beloved Crystal Lake.

"In Rembrandt," Anna Lipworth wrote, "the background and the figure are one and the same. Everything is interesting: the viewer does not separate anything, as in a beautiful view offered by nature in which everything contributes to enchant the viewer."

"When I paint it is as though I am becoming in touch with an inner source of alchemy. The canvas subtly shifts and changes as the harmony of form comes into being. The process begins with a feeling that needs to be thrust out, like a mass of convergent energy waiting to be released. Form becomes elicited from the canvas ... the story of the painting begins to appear. When it is completed, it becomes apparent that the painting itself has transformed; paintings go through many phases of birth, death and resurrection."

Exhibits

1991	Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. One of Ms. Lipworth's paintings, "Heavenly Days", purchased for permanent collection
1991	DeHaviland Gallery of Fine Arts, Newbury St, Boston, Mass
1991	Wellesley Health Association Medical Clinic, paintings related to the art of well-being
1991	Interface Gallery of Arts, Newton, Mass
1990	"An Artist's Vision", one-woman show, Newton Art Center, Newton, Mass
1989	"The Broken Home" painting exhibited at Mayor's offices, city tricentennial, Newton, Mass
1985	Whitney Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine
1984	Svedenborg Gallery, Newbury St, Boston, Mass (covered by WCVB TV)
1982	Salon des Artistes, Meridien Hotel, Franklin St, Boston, Mass
1980	Wellesley Gallery of Art, Wellesley, Mass
1975	Tiena Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Mass

Education

MFA, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass

MA (Psychology and Fine Arts), City University of New York

Ms. Lipworth also studied at the Art Students League (NY), University of California at Berkeley, modern dance at the Martha Graham Studios (NY); also studied for many years on Provincetown, including with Hans Hoffman's student, Morris Davidson.