Gladys Williams Renwick
- BORN
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January 24, 1904
Saint Louis, Missouri
- DIED
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March 23, 2000
Oxford, Pennsylvania
- EDUCATION
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Sumner High School
Saint Louis, Missouri
Gladys W. Renwick was born January 24, 1904, in St. Louis, Missouri. She studied at Sumner High School in St. Louis, where she took a fine arts course, and then attended the Chicago School of Fine Arts once she graduated. She also studied under Charles X. Carlson, a well-known watercolorist who saw and liked her artwork. After she married, she stopped painting, and it wasn’t until twenty years later that she started again.
For Renwick, painting started out as a hobby because it was “relaxing.” She worked mostly with watercolor and oils depicting still lifes, portraits, and landscapes of Pennsylvania scenery. At her solo exhibition at the University of Illinois in 1950, she revealed that most of her early works were lost and what was displayed at the exhibit was her most current work. In 1951 at the 10th Annual for Negro Artists exhibition at Atlanta University, she exhibited her watercolor, Kirks Mill, and won the Second Atlanta University Purchase Award for her work.
Renwick was not a professional artist; she worked as a dietitian at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, and later became the assistant director of food services there. She died on March 23, 2000, in Oxford.
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Boston Museum of Fine Art Exhibition
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Philadelphia Academy of Art Exhibition
Organized by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Beach Theatre Exhibition
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Bird Cage Gallery Exhibition
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Post House Exhibition
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Award, Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Bibliography
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Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.
“Gladys W. Renwick in the U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014,” Ancestry, accessed September 20, 2021.
Tina Maria Dunkley, Jerry Cullum and Richard A. Long, In the Eye of the Muses: Selections from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection (Atlanta: Clark Atlanta University, 2012), 84, 253.
High Museum of Art, Highlights from the Atlanta University Collection of Afro-American Art (Atlanta: 1973).
“Renwick, Gladys W.,” in Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary (Boston: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973), 234.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), The Lion, 1968, 12-13, https://www.lincoln.edu/sites/default/files/library/Yrbook-pdfs/Yearbook_1968.pdf.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), The Lion, 1959, 10, https://www.lincoln.edu/sites/default/files/library/Yrbook-pdfs/Yearbook_1959.pdf.
“Top Atlanta U. Art Awards Won by Four New Yorkers,” The Pittsburgh Courier, April 7, 1951, 13.
“Mrs. Gladys Renwick Exhibits Art In Library Sunday,” The Lincolnian, June 5, 1950, 2.
Core Reference Sources
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
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Unknown, Gladys W. Renwick, 1959.
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Lincoln University yearbook, The Lion, 1959.
Contributors
Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Bibliography
Select Sources
Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.
“Gladys W. Renwick in the U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014,” Ancestry, accessed September 20, 2021.
Tina Maria Dunkley, Jerry Cullum and Richard A. Long, In the Eye of the Muses: Selections from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection (Atlanta: Clark Atlanta University, 2012), 84, 253.
High Museum of Art, Highlights from the Atlanta University Collection of Afro-American Art (Atlanta: 1973).
“Renwick, Gladys W.,” in Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary (Boston: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973), 234.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), The Lion, 1968, 12-13, https://www.lincoln.edu/sites/default/files/library/Yrbook-pdfs/Yearbook_1968.pdf.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), The Lion, 1959, 10, https://www.lincoln.edu/sites/default/files/library/Yrbook-pdfs/Yearbook_1959.pdf.
“Top Atlanta U. Art Awards Won by Four New Yorkers,” The Pittsburgh Courier, April 7, 1951, 13.
“Mrs. Gladys Renwick Exhibits Art In Library Sunday,” The Lincolnian, June 5, 1950, 2.
Core Reference Sources
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
Contributors
Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
Published on September 27, 2021
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