Glenda Green

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Glenda Allen Green (born in 1945) [cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, A Biographical Dictionary |year=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |quote= | url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0815325843 |isbn=0824060490 ] 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.

Career

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. [cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Paintings by Glenda Green: A Retrospective. |year=1986 |publisher=Oklahoma Art Center |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9MyXHAAACAAJ&dq |isbn= ] In 1998 she had a show at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art. [ cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Paintings by Glenda Green: A Focus on the Oklahoma Years. |year=1998 |publisher=Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BG9bHQAACAAJ&dq |isbn= ]

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. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Glenda Green shares messages from Jesus. |url= |quote=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 ... |publisher=Austin American-Statesman |date= |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] She is now a public speaker on new age spirituality and lives in Arizona. cite web |url=http://www.lescarney.com/arizona.htm |title=Glenda Green |accessdate=2007-09-25 |quote=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. |publisher= ]

Works

*" [http://books.google.com/books?id=WmcJAAAACAAJ&dq Love Without End: Jesus Speaks] " , Spiritis Publishing (1998) ISBN 0966662318
*" [http://books.google.com/books?id=UBi6AQAACAAJ&dq The Keys of Jeshua] ", Spiritis Publishing (2004) ISBN 0966662377
*" [http://lovewithoutend.com/custom/index.php?body=portrait The Lamb and The Lion] " (1992), is shown here with commentary by the artist. It is exhibited at the St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Willow Park, Texas.

References

Further reading

* "Angels A to Z", by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Oliver, Published by Gale Group (1995) ISBN 0787604895
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External links

* [http://lovewithoutend.com/custom/index.php?body=glenda&osCsid=56be5855943910730809e609ac69c758 Glenda Green's own website]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDqNDQFnZw Glenda Green] , speaking on You Tube . Accessed October 2007
* [http://www.originalchurch.org/officials.htm Spiritis Church Key Officials]