Anne Savage's life balanced the active commitment of the educator with the solitary pursuits of the painter. She made a lasting impression on her students and everyone she met with her passion for art, knowledge, and excitement about the visual world.

As an enthusiastic teacher she became a role model. Many of her students became professional artists and teachers. Alfred Pinsky who went on to become Dean of Concordia University's Faculty Fine Arts, was nurtured and mentored by Anne Savage "She gave us [her students] enough specific information about colour, rhythm, form, picture and composition, so that combined with this enthusiasm, this love, you had a very, very remarkably good basis to work from," he said in his 1967 interview with H.A. Calvin.

In 1969 Prof. Leah Sherman wrote for the "Anne Savage : A Retrospective" show at Sir George Williams University Art Gallery, "As her student, and later as a fellow teacher, I was conscious of ...being a partner to discoveries which we shared. In her company, the visual world became an endless source of stimulation and pleasure."

Their former high school teacher's commitment to art education and encouragement inspired Professors Sherman and Pinsky to develop graduate and undergraduate art programs at Sir George Williams University in the 1960's.