Gloria Plevin
Gloria Plevin is an American painter and printmaker born on July 25, 1934, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She lives in Northeast Ohio and works with watercolors, pastels, acrylics, and monoprints, and she is known for realistic images.
She grew up in Clarksburg, West Virginia, finished high school in 1952, and earned an associate degree from Ohio University in 1954. She began painting professionally when she was 30, while raising young children. Even as abstract styles became popular, she stayed with realism and studied art at the Cooper School of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art, learning from teachers including Thelma Frazier Winter and Moe Brooker.
Her work first gained public recognition in 1973 with the Helen Logan Award for Traditional Painting for a portrait of her father-in-law in the Chautauqua National Juried Show. She opened her own gallery in Chautauqua, New York, in 1985. Over time, her focus shifted from portraits and still life to gardens and landscapes. Her first museum-curated show was in 1993 at the Butler Institute of American Art in Salem, Ohio. She received the Governor’s Award from the Ohio Arts Council in 1999.
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