GLENN MITCHELL (1894-1972)
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Biography • Glen Mitchell (1894-1972)
Glen Mitchell was born in New Richmond, Indiana. He first pursued art training as a teenager at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1910-1915. He went on to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1915-1920. He received a Guggenheim Traveling Scholarship in 1926 which he used in Europe in 1926-1927, studying at Académie de la Grand Chaumière in Paris and visiting galleries in France, Italy, Spain, Egypt, and Palestine. He returned to Europe again in 1932.
Mitchell taught at the Minneapolis School of Art from 1929 to 1941 and represented Minneapolis in a 1934 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York called Artists and Sculptors from 16 American Cities. In the exhibition catalogue, it notes that Mitchell had already had one-man exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and at the Hoosier Salon, Chicago. Mitchell was represented by the prestigious Ferargil Galleries in New York. Mitchell exhibited in many museum invitationals as well, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mitchell moved to New York and taught at Parson’s School of Design from 1949 to 1954. He executed a mural for Macy’s Department Store in 1955-56, as well as one for Fashion Institute of Technology. He died January 24, 1972 in New York.