Please note: This exhibit contains nudity.
An Artist's Sketchbook: Life Drawings and Paintings by Emlyn Edwards will open First Friday, July 2nd, 2021.
Exhibit run: July 2nd - July 23rd, 2021 in the Rosel H. Schewel Gallery (Gallery 109) at Riverviews Artspace.
Emlyn R. Edwards was born May 16th, 1916 in Bloomfield, N.J. and died June 12, 2003 in Lynchburg, VA. He served as a draftsman and topographical mapmaker in North Africa and Europe from 1940 to 1945 with the U.S. Army. When he returned from the war, he attended Yale University on the G.I. Bill and received both his bachelor’s and master’s degree in art. He went on to teach drawing, painting, printmaking, and design for 28 years at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. After his retirement, he and his wife, Ruth Ann, moved to Lynchburg, where she worked as the librarian at Randolph Macon Woman’s College.
These life drawings and portrait paintings are from his years at Yale University. To him, these works of art were assignments and student projects. As such, few people have seen this masterful work. I have treasured these drawings and paintings for many years. They were given to me by his children, Jean and Tom, at the death of his wife of 57 years in 2012.
-Brooke Marcy | Curator at Riverviews Artspace
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