Biography from AskART:
| Edna Reindel, painter, sculptor, teacher and muralist was born in Detroit, MI, in 1900 and studied at the Pratt Institute, NY. Upon Graduation in 1923 she did book illustration and free-lance commercial artwork for five years. After studying on a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and hanging her first solo show in New York in 1934 she painted a mural for the Stamford, Conn., Housing Project and then worked on a Treasury Department mural for the post office of Swainsboro, Georgia. These commissions brought other mural work and soon she was known for her bold deliniated style of painting that became her signiature style.
Her paintings are owned by many important museums and in addition to winning the Tiffany Foundation Fellowship award, 1926, 1932; she won an award at the Art Directors Club, 1935; Beverly Hills Art Festival, 1939 and others.Edna Reindel's "Intellectual and carefully restrained pictures" have steadily gained recognition. Known Mostly for her flowers and still-life studies, she also painted a large series of New England scenes at Martha's Vineyard, where she summered. She employed "crisp, clean cut forms" in her works. She was also known for genre, portraits, landscapes, horsemen, fruit, dancers, bathers, nudes and dogs. She passed away in Santa Monica, California in 1990.
Source:
Blake Benton Fine Art
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Note from Pete La Chapelle, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
University of Southern California
Reindel painted portraits of a number of Rosie the Riveter-type women
working in the Southern California aircraft and shipyard industry during
World War II. See: LIFE June 5 1944, 74.
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Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Detroit, MI on Feb. 19, 1894. Reindel studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She was active in Los Angeles in the late 1930s and continued as a resident of San Fernando and Santa Monica until 1962. She died on April 3, 1990. Exh: Carnegie Inst., 1936-49; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1938-40; Beverly Hills Art Festival, 1939 (award); Foundation of Western Art (LA), 1939; GGIE, 1939; San Diego FA Gallery, 1939; LACMA, 1940; LA AA, 1941; Taylor Gallery (Beverly Hills), 1941-45; Carnegie Inst. (Pittsburgh), 1947; Vigeveno Gallery (LA), 1953. In: New Britain (CT) Art Inst.; MM; Dallas Museum; Whitney Museum; Swainsboro (GA) Post Office (mural); Pentagon, (Washington, DC); Jockey Club, Las Vegas (mural). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Who's Who in American Art 1936-62; Index of Artists Supplement (Daniel Mallett); Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Social Security Death Index (1940-2002). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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