About Gladys Milligan
Lived 1892 – 1973 (aged 80–81). Gladys Milligan was an American painter and artist.
Gladys Milligan (1892 — 1973) was an American painter.
Biography Born in LaRue, Ohio, McMillan attended the Western College for Women and Westminster College in Pennsylvania. She then studied under George Luks and Hans Hofmann and at the Pratt Institute before traveling to Paris for further instruction with André Lhote and at the Fontainebleau School of Art. She is known to have been active in Washington, D.C. at least as early as 1931, continuing her activities there until at least 1967. She died in Tryon; A 1972 portrait of Abby Merchant, an acquaintance from the Tryon artists' colony, is currently in the Polk County Historical Museum in Tryon. She is also represented in the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
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Who was Gladys Milligan?
American painter (1892–1973)
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Gladys Milligan was born in 1892 in LaRue.
When did Gladys Milligan die?
Gladys Milligan died in 1973 in Tryon.
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Gladys Milligan was a painter and artist.
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Gladys Milligan was American.
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