Part NMC/2012/v1 - Night and Day (Version 1)

Mary Reid was born in 1897. She embarked on a prolific academic career at The Glasgow School of Art, where she studied from 1914 until 1921. Reid originally resided at 'The Oriels' in Shawlands, moving address to Stuartville, Dunlop, for the academic year 1919 and finally moving again in 1920 to West Princes Street, Helensburgh.

Throughout her lengthy time at The School, Reid studied predominantly Drawing and Painting as a day student. This would have likely been under the tutelage of the renowned professor Maurice Greiffenhagen. She is also recorded as studying Modelling, likely taught by Paul Wayland Bartlett and also Needlecraft and Embroidery, which would have been taught by Ann MacBeth. Reid was absent for the first academic term of 1917 due to illness.

It is possible Mary was also known as 'May.' In this case she is recorded as being a minor painter of figurative subjects and informal portraits, her work 'Night and Day' being particularly note-worthy for its Pre-Raphaelite style. 'May' Reid lived in Monte Carlo and continued her artistic career before marrying and settling in London, after which it is unknown whether she continued her work.

Sources: The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J. M. McEwan