EDWARD J. GLANNON

Landscape Painter

Born: Pittsburgh, PA,   October 2, 1911
Died: Roslyn, New York   May 28, 1992

Art Studies:

The Art Students League (1932-1934)

Schnackenburg Fellowship
Studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller,
Thomas Hart Benton, Alexander Brook

Art Teaching:

   Gramercy Boys Club, New York, N.Y.  (1934-42)
   The Fieldston School, New York, N.Y. (1937-1962)
   Roslyn High School, Roslyn, N.Y.  (1965-75)

Media:   Oils (until 1966)
   Watercolors (1966-92)
   Lithography (1970-92)

Collections:

   Smithsonian Institution
   Irish National Gallery
   John Jacob Astor Collection
   Benjamin Van Ralte Collection
   Numerous private collections
   Montana Museum of Art and Culture
   Southern Illinois University
   Everglades National Park Museum
   Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
   Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art
   Radford University
   Adirondack Museum, NY
   Everglades National Park Museum
   Farnsworth Museum
   Great Plains Art Museum
   University of Northern Iowa
   University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
   Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art
   Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
   Columbus Museum of Art
   Georgia Museum of Art
   University of Louisville
   University of Kentucky
   Newcomb Art Gallery

Gallery Affiliations:

   Mortimer Leavitt Gallery (1940's)
   Forley & Wren, New York, N.Y. (1962-66)
   Mark of the Phoenix, New York, N.Y. (1966-67)
   The Old Print Shop, New York, NY ((2005-present)

Books Illustrated:

This cover of Guess What's In the Grass is part of the New York Public Library's dustcover collection

   Everybody Eats, W. R. Scott (1946) (text by Mary
 McBurney Green)

   Guess What's In The Grass, W. R. Scott (1945) (text by
 Lucy Sprague Mitchell)

Radio Program:

            “That’s Interesting” Interview by Shirley Sanberg
                        (CW Post WCWP FM; 1987)

Television Program:

   "The Land I Love: The Work of Painter Edward Glannon"
(Public Broadcasting; ½ hour; 1972)

Prizes and Awards:

   Freedom Medal, Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge (1973)

Articles:

   "Art in a Human Dimension," in Teaching and Learning,
 Ethical Culture Schools, 1962
   "The WPA Experience," in Roots in Open Education (1976)
   "A Letter to a Social Studies Teacher," in Arts Education
 Bulletin, Eastern Arts Assn. (1957)
   "A Teacher Talks Back," in Center Post, Guidance Center
 of New Rochelle, Inc. 1959