Key Information
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Reid, Mary
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Reid, May
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
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
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subjects
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Processing information
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
local