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Melvin, Gladys
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Gladys Georgie Simpson Melvin was born on 24th April 1898 in Glasgow. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1920 as a day student of drawing and painting. Melvin's registered address was Sherbrooke Avenue, Pollokshields. According to Ancestry, she was one of seven children of William Melvin and Mary Wilson Simpson Melvin. Melvin's sisters Margaret Colligan and Muriel Evelyn, and her father also attended The Glasgow School of Art. According to Ancestry, Melvin married James Aspin in June 1929. Melvin died in 1982 and Aspin died in 1960. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture, Melvin was a miniaturist who exhibited two mini-portraits, "Don" and "Dan", at the Glasgow Institute in 1919 and one, "Margaret", in 1921.
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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk; "The Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture" by Peter JM McEwan; "The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 1861-1989" by Roger Billcliffe.
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