Biografie von Ralph William REYNOLDS (1905-1991)

Birth place: Albany, WI

Addresses: Indiana, PA

Profession: Educator, painter, lithographer

Studied: AIC, 1925-27 & 1931; Beloit College (B.A., 1938); State Univ. Iowa (M.A., 1939); Grant Wood; Jean Charlot; Eliot O'Hara; Charles Burchfield; William Thon; Clarence Carter; Millard Sheets.

Exhibited: over 100 exhs. incl. Oklahoma AC, 1939; Phila Art All., 1939; Am. Color Pr. Soc., 1942; Iowa State Fair, 1939-40; Kansas City AI, 1940; Butler AI, 1941-42; Pittsburgh AA, 1942-46; Athens, OH, 1945-46; Parkersburg FA Center, 1945-46. Pittsburgh WCS, Arts & Crafts Center, 1951-72, AWCS, NAD Gals., 1959 & AAPL Grand Nat., Lever House, New York, 1972; over 20 solo shows incl. Univ. Club Pittsburgh & Westminster College, 1968. Awards: 20 awards, Ann. Allied Artists Johnstown, PA, 1951-72; 5 Ida Smith Mem. Awards & First Prize, Pittsburgh WCS, 1951-63; 7 purchase awards, Penelec & U.S. Bank Shows, 1960-69

Member: Indiana (PA) AA (pres., 1942); Johnstown (PA) AA; Pittsburgh WCS (vice-pres., 1952); Pittsburgh AA; AAPL (fellow)

Work: Indiana Univ. PA; Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA; One Hundred Friends Pittsburgh Art, PA; Univ. Club, Pittsburgh; also many pub. schools, banks & indust. concerns in western PA. Commissions: many portraits, PA, 1942-72.

Comments: Positions: commercial artist, various studios, Chicago & Cleveland, OH, 1927-33. Teaching: Beloit College, 1933-38; South Dakota State Univ., 1940-41; Indiana Univ., PA, 1941-70s.

Sources: WW73; WW47.

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