Jeanne Reynal

Jeanne Reynal (1903-1983) was an American mosaic artist.[1] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,[1] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[2] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[3] Her personal papers from 1942 to 1968 are included in the Archives of American Art.[4]

Biography

Reynal was born in 1903 in White Plains, New York.[5] She was the second of five children.[5] When Reynal was nine years old, her parents separated.[5] She moved to Millbrook, New York with her father where she was taught by a governess.[5] Her other siblings continued to live with her mother.[5]

At the age of twenty-four, Reynal spent a summer to England, France, and Italy with her siblings and her mother.[5] It was during this trip that Reynal first met the Russian mosaicist Boris Anrep.[5] Two years later, Reynal began an apprenticeship with Anrep in Europe after assisting him with a mosaic he installed in the Bank of England.[5] The two also became romantically involved until Anrep left Reynal for a wealthy Englishwoman.[5] The two only saw each other once after this separation.[5]

Reynal left Paris in 1937 and moved to California, where she worked in a potting shed in Marin County.[5] She then moved to the High Sierras, where she built a house and studio.[5]

In 1946, she moved to Greenwich Village, New York.[5]

She married the painter Thomas Sills in 1953.[5]

References
  1. "Jeanne Reynal". www.whitney.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. "Jeanne Reynal - LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  3. "Jeanne Reynal. A Good Circular God. 1948-50 - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  4. "Jeanne Reynal papers, 1942-1968". www.aaa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  5. Munro, Eleanor (2000). Originals: American women artists. Da Capo. ISBN 0306809559. OCLC 902208717.
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