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Aside from her birth and death dates, 1902 and 1980, very little is known about Anita Phillips Jordan. Her residencies can be traced to time spent in New York City and at the creative community of Woodstock. Located in the Catskill Mountains slightly more than a hundred miles north of Manhattan, Woodstock was the home of Byrdcliffe, a utopian arts colony founded in 1902 and still in operation. Heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, the 250-acre grounds included houses and studios, as well as facilities for pottery, furniture making, weaving, and painting. Birge Harrison taught painting at Byrdcliffe in 1904, before departing in 1906 to serve as the first director of the summer program of the Art Students League in Woodstock, a post he held through 1911. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Harrison was a frequent winter visitor to Charleston, South Carolina, and was instrumental in suggesting that his young protégé from Woodstock, Alfred Hutty, teach at the Carolina Art Association. It was likely at Hutty’s recommendation that Anita Jordan made her way to the Holy City, where she applied her skills as a watercolorist on at least one occasion.