Anton Haardt is a visual artist and writer, and has been an avid collector and dealer of Outsider and Self-taught Art for more than 25 years. Born in 1948, she grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and received her B.F.A. degree in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute.

The Anton Haardt Gallery, founded in Montgomery in 1980, focuses on paintings and sculpture by self-taught artists of the Deep South, specializing in vintage works by Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Juanita Rogers, and Sybil Gibson among others. Anton Haardt opened a brand new gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans in October 2001.