Author: Tim
Recent Work
“Spring Meadow” Oil on canvas, 22” x 28” This is a sparkling celebration of spring and all its elements of simple beauty. Reminiscent of river sailing in antique days, this is a painting that provokes the senses as one moves from the lazy river to walk through marshy grass and spring wild flowers. Once…
The Academic 60’s
The Art of Glenda Green by Chandra Gilbert ost of the sixties were academic years for Glenda. These would include four years at Texas Christian University earning a BFA in painting, three years at Tulane University earning an MA in art history, followed by three more years working as an instructor at Tulane and a…
The Soaring 70’s
he Seventies were transformative for Glenda. She would soar from fledgling artist to having a painting shown in the Metropolitan Museum, to being collected by the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of the City of New York. As a portraitist she would be given referrals by Thomas Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan Museum, and favorable…
The Elegant 80’s
he turn of this decade was launched with a rise into New York gallery invitations and a contract with the leading producer of fine art posters, Bruce McGaw Graphics. Her poster, “The Flight of Spring” would be one of the bestselling posters world-wide for most of 1980, and that success among others would lead to…
The Inspiring 90’s
he nineties could best be described as a great refraction of light for Glenda. Indeed, this decade was initiated by fire. On Christmas Eve, just before the turn of the decade, her home was engulfed in a fire that destroyed the whole of her household property and also a number of major paintings from her…
The Formative 50s
From The Art of Glenda Green By Chandra Gilbert 1982 In 1945, just before the Boomers began arriving, Glenda was born in the antique, gentrified town of Weatherford, Texas. Here, spires of Victorian home still shaped the horizon. Wealthy ranchers, who had been too dignified to live in a close downwind of their cattle lots,…
About the Artist
ot often can we view an artist’s career stretching for more than a half century—especially when it is still being created, and more than that, still making headway toward its pinnacle of innovation. There is a signatory quality throughout Glenda Green’s body of work, within a great variety, richness, and technical mastery of her many…