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Gloria Plevin

Gloria Rosenthal Plevin (born 1934) is an American painter and print maker living and working in Northeast Ohio. She works in watercolors, pastels, acrylics and monoprints.[1]

Biography

Plevin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 25, 1934. She was raised in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and graduated from Washington Irving High School in 1952. She received an Associates Degree from Ohio University in 1954.[2] When she was thirty years old with young children at home, she began pursuing a painting career.[3] Her need for technical information and experience with materials and tools of art, led her to classes at the Cooper School of Art, and the Cleveland Institute of Art.[4] She studied with Thelma Frazier Winter and Moe Brooker.[3] In 1999, Plevin received the Governor's Award from the Ohio Arts Council.[2]

Selected Exhibitions

2018 Gloria Plevin: A Life in Art

2016 The Flowering of the Botanical Print

Selected Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art [1]

ARTneo: The Museum of Northeast Ohio Art [2]

Burchfield Penney Art Center [3]

Butler Institute of American Art

Art Museum of West Virginia University

References

  1. ^ "Marquis Biographies Online". search.marquiswhoswho.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  2. ^ a b "Marquis Biographies Online". search.marquiswhoswho.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  3. ^ a b McClelland, Elizabeth (1998). The Art of Gloria Plevin. Cleveland, OH: Ohio Artists Now. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Gloria Plevin: Artists Archives of the Western Reserve". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)