Glen A. Mitchell

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1926–27:

Mitchell, Glen Amos: Appointed for certain art studies, and for the purpose of completing a group of paintings, religious and historical in character, abroad; tenure, twelve months from August 15, 1926.

Born June 9, 1894, at New Richmond, Indiana. Education: Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, 1910–15 (alternate periods); Art Institute of Chicago, 1915–20; American Traveling Scholarship, Art Institute of Chicago, 1918 and 1919; first prize for portraiture, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni, 1920, 1921, 1922; first prize for drawing, Chaloner Concours, National Academy of Design, New York, 1921.

Artist.

Principal Paintings: “Sacrifice,” in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, New Richmond, Indiana; “Emigrants,” two panels in the offices of the Rotary Club, Chicago, Illinois; “Boboli Giardini,” in the collection of the Art Institute, Chicago; “The Argonauts”; “Mary’s Sorrow”; “Gypsy Camp, Romany”; also portraits.