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.