biography of Reynold Henry WEIDENAAR (1915-1985)

Birth place: Grand Rapids, MI

Death place: Grand Rapids

Addresses: Grand Rapids, MI

Profession: Etcher, painter, illustrator, lecturer

Studied: Kendall School Design, 1935-36; Kansas City AI, scholarship, 1938, 1938-40; W. Rosenbauer; J. Meert; M. Hammon.

Exhibited: regular exhibitor, NAD, Detroit IA, 1943 & LOC; Wash. WCC, 1946; Irvingtion Art & Mus. Assn., 1943; CAFA, 1943; Hefner Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI, 1970s. Awards: SAE, 1942 (prize), 1945 (prize); LOC, 1944 (prize); P&S Soc., NJ, 1945 (prize); New Orleans AA, 1945 (prize), 1946 (prize); Guggenheim Foundation award, 1944; Tiffany Foundation scholarship, 1948.

Member: NAD; SAGA; AWCS; SAE; Chicago SE; Wash. SE; Calif. SE; CAFA; AAPL; Wash. WCC; Bridgeport AL; North Shore AA; Gloucester AA; New Orleans AA; Carmel AA; Springfield AL; Inst. Mod. Art, Boston; Palm Beach AL; Wash. AC

Work: LOC; Detroit IA; Nat. Gal. South Wales, Liverpool, England; U.S. Nat. Mus.; Honolulu Acad. FA; CAFA; Wadsworth Atheneum; W.R. Nelson Gal.; Hackley Art Gal., Muskegon, MI; PMA; Grand Rapids Art Gal. Commissions: murals, church history, La Grave Ave. Christian Reformed Church, 1965 & Urban Renewal, Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., Grand Rapids.

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, casein. Publications: author, Our Changing Landscape," Wake-Brook House, 1970. Teaching: instructor, life drawing & painting, Kendall School Design, 1956; private instructor. Illustrator: "The Street," 1945, "The March of Truth," 1944, &other books.

Sources: WW73; WW47."

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