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United States at Laredo, Texas, stating on their arrival manifest that their destination was "Washington, Connecticut" where they intended to "reside permanently." (the immigration officer preparing the manifest noted that Renouf had presented as his ID "Certificate of
Identity and Registration No. 1841, American Foreign Service," suggesting that Renouf had a second occupation during his stays in Mexico.
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171:(A.B. 1838, M.A. 1841), and was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1842. According to one obituary, Rev. Renouf enjoyed traveling, "had visited almost all the countries in the world, and had become familiar with their languages and the habits of their peoples." He bequeathed his cosmopolitan outlook to his son,
278:. He remained in Mexico, where he joined a large and growing international group of artists flocking to Mexico City in the early 1940s, and where he became the leader of a renegade group of Surrealists known as the Dyn Circle. From 1942 until 1944, Paalen published and edited the group's journal, called
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The couple wed the following month at
Washington, Connecticut, where her New York family kept a second home, and where they would maintain a residence until her death in 1982, and his in 1999. They were counted in the 1940 census living in a townhouse at 183 East 83rd Street, Manhattan with two young
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Having left Mexico in 1959 and settled in
Connecticut, Renouf began to actively exhibit his work, mostly in the galleries of New York's art dealers, but also in the annual exhibitions of museums, most notably the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the 1960s, he was best known for his iron sculpture
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During their fifteen-year stay in Mexico, Edward and
Catharine Renouf (or perhaps her mother) maintained a Connecticut residence, called Waldingfield Farm, a 140-acre dairy farm that years earlier her father bought for summer vacations. On April 5, 1948, they and their three children entered the
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children. Catharine Renouf was a "dance teacher" at a "school" but Edward Renouf had no occupation; since 1936, he had been doing post-graduate study in psychology at
Columbia University. The following year, Renouf left New York for Mexico in order to study drawing and painting with the muralist
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announced his impending marriage to
Catharine Innes Smith, Renouf was living in New York, working as a writer. Catharine Smith was the daughter of Clarence Bishop Smith (1872â1932), an admiralty lawyer, and the granddaughter of Cornelius Bishop Smith (1834â1913), for many years the rector of St.
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announced the marriage of their daughter, the paper described the parents of the bride as "Mr. and Mrs. Edward von
Pechmann Renouf of Mexico City and Waldingfield, Washington ." By 1959, they had settled permanently on the Connecticut farm, where Edward Renouf began to sculpt in earnest.
288:), London and Paris. Edward Renouf was Paalen's associate editor for the first four of five issues, which included the work of artists, writers, and photographers, including essays by Renouf and at least one illustration of his own artwork:
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Although Renouf continued to work until 1989, his last New York exhibition was in 1982. He died at
Washington, Connecticut in 1999 and was the subject there of a retrospective show in 2001 at the Washington Art Association.
367:...and he makes things that illustrate his memory and fantasy...Edward has developed an almost academic manner, of the best sort, meaning, a kind of morality of openness, as one who has seen enough to become civilized...
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Northern Registry of Deeds, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Assessor's office, Edward Davenport Renouf and his wife Eliza, 45 Abbot Street, Andover, July 16, 1917, book 58, page 379. They sold the house in October
222:(not far from the home of their great-grandfather Rev. Renouf). By 1920, the family was living on Abbot Street, Andover, Massachusetts, in a house owned by Vincent Renouf's brother. Edward Renouf studied at
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Washington, Conn., where I looked up an old classmate whom I haven't seen since 1928, and who wrote me on his return to this country from Mexico on his having a show at
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155:(1906-1999) was a mid-20th-century American artist, known primarily for iron sculpture, and abstract paintings and drawings. He was most active during the 1960s and 1970s.
207:(1908), intended for use by Chinese students. Lilli von Pechmann was the daughter of Heinrich Karl von Pechmann (1826â1905), from 1888 until 1899 director of the
179:(1876â1910), who taught at a Chinese university; and to his great-grandson, the subject of this article, who was born in China and lived for many years in Mexico.
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James' Episcopal Church on Madison Avenue. An uncle, Lincoln Cromwell, donated Mount Acadia, and land surrounding it, to the National Park Service in 1919.
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Vincent Renouf died in China from typhoid fever on May 4, 1910, after which his wife brought their three children first to Munich, and then in 1912 to
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199:(1876â1910), and his German wife, Lilli von Pechmann (1873 â after 1939). Vincent Renouf was a professor of history and political economics at
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included an entry for Renouf living with his wife and three children at Oreliano Rivera 17, Villa ObregĂłn, Mexico, his occupation "painter."
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often made from old farm implements, but by 1971, he began to exhibit a growing collection of abstract drawings and paintings.
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Renouf was born into a distinguished Boston family. His great-grandfather Rev. Edward Augustus Renouf (1818â1913) attended the
301:(JulyâAugust 1942), including Renouf's essay, "On Certain Functions of Modern Painting" and an illustration of his drawing
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Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, September 1977.
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Edward Renouf: Retrospective: Sculpture and Painting 1949â1989
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Books and articles written by or about Edward Renouf include:
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Memorial Gallery, Horace Mann School, Riverdale, Bronx, NY:
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Material witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
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578:(Washington Depot, CT: Washington Art Association, 2001).
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Edward Renouf, "On Certain Functions of Modern Painting"
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Renouf's works are held by the following institutions:
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Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Sculpture and Drawing
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where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928.
215:. Her mother, Anna Amalie Lotze, was a photographer.
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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXY7-V2B
567:Edward Renouf, "The Sculpture of William Talbot,"
436:Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Sculpture
429:Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Sculpture
410:, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1961.
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205:Outlines of General History for Eastern Students
660: : 1 February 2021), Lilli P Renouf, 1920.
187:Edward von Pechmann Renouf was born in 1906 at
922:New York Magazine, September 20, 1982, p. 154.
609:, educator and author; Edward Renouf's father.
964:The author is a granddaughter of the artist.
434:Whitney Museum of American Art, New York:
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755:(Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999).
603:, artist; Edward Renouf's grandmother.
438:, December 9, 1964 â January 31, 1965.
403:, December 7, 1960 â January 22, 1961.
363:. He welds sculpture out of junk like
195:, China, the son of American educator
693:"Troth Announced of Miss C. I. Smith"
284:, selling copies in New York (at the
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933:"Private Schools Display More Arts"
615:, artist, Edward Renouf's daughter.
452:, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966.
448:Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
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479:Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York:
406:Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts,
270:In 1939, the Austrian-born artist
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387:Edward Renouf, Iron Sculpture
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450:161st Annual Exhibition
347:Connecticut (1959â1999)
220:Richmond, New Hampshire
1001:Harvard College alumni
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509:PĂ©rez Art Museum Miami
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338:In July 1958, when
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937:The New York Times
883:The New York Times
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569:Harvard Art Review
514:Phoenix Art Museum
340:The New York Times
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254:Mexico (1941â1959)
235:The New York Times
201:Tianjin University
88:Harvard University
913:, September 1981.
483:, September 1981.
476:, May 1â29, 1980.
459:, May 8â26, 1971.
408:Annual Exhibition
173:Dr. Edward Renouf
159:Family background
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710:December 5,
613:Edda Renouf
495:Collections
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