Gwendolyn Mews

Gwendolyn Dufill Mews (1893 – 1973) was a Canadian-born artist who later settled in the United States.

Life The daughter of Arthur Mews (or Meux), deputy colonial secretary, and Mabel Woods, she was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. She studied at Mount Allison Ladies' College and went on to teach at the college from 1920 to 1922. During this time, she exhibited with the Art Association of Montreal. She later studied with Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts and with Kimon Nicolaïdes at the Art Students League in New York City. From 1922 to 1925, she was assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. During this period, she studied with artists Jozef Bakos and Frank Applegate from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1925, she married A. Gayle Waldrop, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Colorado. The couple settled in Boulder, Colorado. She was hired as an art instructor by the University of Colorado.