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May H. Gilruth

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May H. Gilruth
May Gilruth in her Chicago studio
Born
Anna May Hardman

(1885-07-19)July 19, 1885
Jane Lew, West Virginia
DiedOctober 23, 1962(1962-10-23) (aged 74)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Spouse
Irwin T. Gilruth
(m. 1917)

May H. Gilruth (July 19, 1885 – October 23, 1962) was an American artist/painter.

Personal background

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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

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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]

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  • 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
West Virginia Mountain Boy, watercolor

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Scott, Stephen. "May Hardman Gilruth". Illinois Women Artists Project. Bradley University. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ^ Scott, Stephen. "Illinois Women Artists Project: May Hardman Gilruth". Retrieved July 22, 2010.
  3. ^ 'Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago' Vol. 39, No. 7 (Dec., 1945), p. 111