Glenda Green

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Glenda Allen Green (born in 1945) [1] is an American artist, academic and author. Her experiences in painting a portrait of Jesus Christ in 1992 led her to write a book of her inner conversations with Jesus which has become a best seller. [2]

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She graduated magna cum laude with honors in painting from Texas Christian University in 1967. She obtained an M.A. in art history from Tulane University in 1970. There she taught art history and was curator of collections for the Newcomb College art department. Also during this period (1968-69) she worked at Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum as research assistant to the institution's director. She began to seriously paint as an artist in 1971. She later taught at the University of Oklahoma, and had a retrospective show there in 1986. [3] In 1998 she had a show at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art. [4]

It was during her creation of a commissioned portrait of Christ, "The Lamb and The Lion", in 1992 that she turned to spiritual writing. Her book Love Without End, Jesus Speaks was published in 1998.

Her biography states that she had paintings on exhibition in the United States at the Smithsonian Institution, Williams College Museum of Art and the Museum of the City of New York. [5] She is now a public speaker on new age spirituality and lives in Arizona. [2]

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  1. ^ (1995) North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, A Biographical Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0824060490. 
  2. ^ a b Glenda Green. Retrieved on 2007-09-25. “Author of the best-selling Love Without End, Jesus Speak, and artist of the internationally acclaimed painting, "The Lamb and The Lion." She is acknowledged by the nation's leading scholars, critics, and museum officials as one of the world's foremost portrait painters and spiritual artists.”
  3. ^ (1986) Paintings by Glenda Green: A Retrospective.. Oklahoma Art Center. 
  4. ^ (1998) Paintings by Glenda Green: A Focus on the Oklahoma Years.. Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art. 
  5. ^ "Glenda Green shares messages from Jesus.", Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Glenda Green has her art work hanging in the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of the City of New York, but she is coming to Austin to talk about her most famous model: Jesus Christ. Green, who lives in Fort Worth, claims Jesus posed in her studio for almost four months in 1992. There, she said, they had long discussions about life and the universe. Her portrait of Jesus shows a white man with blue eyes and reddish hair, cradling a baby lamb in one arm and holding a stick with the other ..." 

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