Glenna Latimer Sold at Auction Prices

Glenna Montague Latimer (American/Virginia,

Glenna Montague Latimer (American/Virginia, 1898-1981), "Victorian Arrangement", 1938, oil on canvas, signed lower right, Charleston Renaissance Gallery label and inscribed on stretcher en verso, 39 in. x 25 1/2 in., original frame. Provenance: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, c. 1939 until 1966; later acquired by Steven Cabot Barnes Harvey (1949-1993) Collection of Southern Art. Illustrated: The Steven Harvey Collection of Southern Art, The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, 2005, p. 28 Note : Born in Newport News, VA in 1898, Glenna Latimer studied with Daniel Garber and Hugh Breckenridge at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She returned to Virginia and settled in nearby Norfolk where she worked as a painter and a children's book illustrator. Her work was exhibited at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, The Corcoran Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and in several of the PAFA Annual Exhibitions."