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Annie Sullings Gooding Sykes was an American Impressionist artist. She was born in 1855 to a seamstress and a silversmith. She began sketching in her teens, and in about 1875, she entered Boston’s Lowell Institute. In 1878, she transferred to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After moving to Cincinnati in 1882 she studied at Cincinnati Art Academy.

She specialized in watercolors, focusing on garden, floral, landscape and coastal themes in her work. In the summers, she worked along the New England coast. She was a co-founder of the Woman's Art Club of Cincinnati and its president. Despite ill health in her later years, she painted until her death in Cincinnati in 1931; as noted in the Cincinnati Enquirer she: "worked up to the end, even when she was physically unable to do so. Her devotion to the art was one of the beautiful things in her eventful life."