By HOLLAND COTTER

Anne Poor, an American artist who painted combat scenes m World War II and later concentrated on dreamlike landscapes, died in Nyack, NY on Jan 2, she was 84 and lived in New City, NY.
A native of New York City, MS Poor studied at the Art Students League while in high school. In the 1940's she helped her stepfather, the artist Henry Varnum Poor, paint murals for the United States Justice Department and the Department of the Interior in Washington. While in the Women's Army Corps in 1943 she gained attention for her depictions of military life, including air evacuations of the wounded in the Pacific. The paintings were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Ant in Washington .

Among her later landscapes was a series done for a 1954 book, "Greece" with a text by Henry Miller. A critically praised New York solo show at Terry Dintenfass in 1992 included paintings of family, friends and pets, living and dead. Surrounded by glowing flowers, all done in a distinctive luminous style an exhibition of works on paper appeared at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack last summer.
Ms Poor taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 1947 to 1967 and was on the board of trustees from 1961 to '83.
She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. and the National Academy of Design. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is survived by her brother. Peter Poor, of Manhattan, two nieces, Anna Poor of Boston and Candida Poor Monteith of Needam MA and a nephew Graham Poor of Raleigh NC.