May H. Gilruth
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May H. Gilruth | |
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Born | Anna May Hardman July 19, 1885 Jane Lew, West Virginia |
Died | October 23, 1962 Chicago, Illinois | (aged 74)
Nationality | American |
Education | West Virginia Wesleyan College, Ohio Wesleyan College[1] |
Known for | Painting |
Spouse(s) | Irwin T. Gilruth (m. 1917) |
May H. Gilruth (July 19, 1885 – October 23, 1962) was an American artist/painter.
Personal background[]
She was born Anna May Hardman in Jane Lew, West Virginia. She disliked her given first name Anna and never used it.[1] She married Irwin T. Gilruth in 1917 and had two children.
She died in Chicago, Illinois on October 23, 1962.
Career[]
Gilruth worked primarily in pencil, watercolors, woodcuts and oil paints. She was most active in the 1930s to the 1950s, appearing in four major exhibitions,[2] including The Art Institute of Chicago in 1945[3] She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, Washington, DC.[1]
Partial list of Exhibitions[1][]
- Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC, 1934–44.
- International Water Color Exhibition, AIC, 1935
- American Watercolor Society, NYC, 1937
- National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors, 1938
- Watercolor Annual, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1939
References[]
- ^ a b c d Scott, Stephen. "May Hardman Gilruth". Illinois Women Artists Project. Bradley University. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Scott, Stephen. "Illinois Women Artists Project: May Hardman Gilruth". Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ 'Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago' Vol. 39, No. 7 (Dec., 1945), p. 111
Categories:
- 1885 births
- 1962 deaths
- American women painters
- Painters from West Virginia
- Artists from Chicago
- People from Lewis County, West Virginia
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American women artists
- American painter, 19th-century birth stubs